doorstep

[ dawr-step, dohr- ]

noun

1. a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
2. British Slang. a thick slice of bread.

doorstep

/ ˈdɔːˌstɛp /

noun

1. a step in front of a door
2. on one's doorstep
   very close or accessible
3. informal.
   a thick slice of bread

verb

1. to canvass (a district) or interview (a member of the public) by or in the course of door-to-door visiting
2. (of a journalist) to wait outside the house of (someone) to obtain an interview, photograph, etc when he or she emerges

Word History and Origins

Origin of doorstep¹

First recorded in 1800–10; door + step

Idioms and Phrases

see under at one's door (on one's doorstep) .

Example Sentences

Oprah, when she came, found a legion of her fans on its doorstep.

From The Daily Beast

Despite doing nothing to get the man of her dreams, he arrives at her doorstep as if she Ubered the heartthrob.

From The Daily Beast

One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep.

From The Daily Beast

When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch.

From The Daily Beast

From their perspective, as long as ISIS sits on Baghdad's doorstep, political change can wait.

From The Daily Beast

A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.

From Project Gutenberg

For a while he raged like a flame upon the doorstep, but he was no match for his vigorous opponent.

From Project Gutenberg

On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.

From Project Gutenberg

As for Ren, he sat on the single doorstep and whittled pegs on which to hang his rifle inside the door.

From Project Gutenberg

The first of them greeted Sara Lee one morning as she stood on her doorstep in the early sun.

From Project Gutenberg

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