doorstep
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
doorstep (plural doorsteps)
- Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
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- On one's doorstep.
- (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
- They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
- (UK, informal) A big slice, especially of bread.
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- I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.
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Translations
threshold of a doorway
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big slice of bread
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Verb
doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)
- (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.