doorstep

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Noun

doorstep (plural doorsteps)

1. An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.

   On one's doorstep.

2. (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.

3. (UK, informal) A big slice, especially of bread.
   • 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 ISBN 0-06-052318-2

     I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.

Translations

• French: seuil
• German: Eingangsstufe, Türschwelle
• Portuguese: soleira
• Russian: поро́г
• Spanish: umbral

Translations

• Portuguese: fationa

Verb

doorstep (doorsteps, present participle doorstepping; past and past participle doorstepped)

1. (intransitive) To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
2. (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

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