doorstep

English

Etymology

door + step

Noun

doorstep (plural doorsteps)

1. Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.

   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. A big slice 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

The threshold of a doorway.

• Belarusian: парог (be) (paróh) m 
• Bulgarian: праг (bg) (prag) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門階 (cmn), 门阶 (cmn) (ménjiē), 門檻 (cmn), 门槛 (cmn) (ménkǎn)

• Czech: práh (cs) m
• French: seuil (fr) m
• German: Eingangsstufe (de) f
• Japanese: 戸口の踏み段 (ja) (とぐちのふみだん, toguchi no fumidan)

• Macedonian: праг (mk) (prag) m
• Polish: próg (pl) m
• Russian: поро́г (ru) (poróg) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: праг (sh) m

  Roman: prag (sh) m

• Slovak: prah (sk) m
• Slovene: prag (sl) m
• Ukrainian: поріг (uk) (poríh) m 

A big slice of bread

• Bulgarian: дебела филия (bg) f (debela filija)

Verb

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

1. (transitive) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
   • 1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter‎

     Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...

   • 2006, Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song

     Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.

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