Looking out of the window, I saw a stranger at the doorstep.
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Doorstep
//ˈdɔː(ɹ)stɛp//
Synonyms for "doorstep" (18 found)
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10 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عَتَبَةُ الْبَابِ noun (threshold of a doorway)
Bashkir
2 entries- буҫаға noun (threshold of a doorway)
- тупһа noun (threshold of a doorway)
Belarusian
1 entries- паро́г noun (threshold of a doorway)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дебела филия noun (thick slice of bread)
- праг noun (threshold of a doorway)
Catalan
2 entries- llindar noun (threshold of a doorway)
- marxapeu noun (threshold of a doorway)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 門檻 /门槛 noun (threshold of a doorway)
- 門階 /门阶 noun (threshold of a doorway)
Czech
1 entries- práh noun (threshold of a doorway)
Danish
1 entries- dørtærskel noun (threshold of a doorway)
Finnish
1 entries- kynnys noun (threshold of a doorway)
French
1 entries- seuil noun (threshold of a doorway)
Galician
3 entries- limiar noun (threshold of a doorway)
- soarego noun (threshold of a doorway)
- soleira noun (threshold of a doorway)
German
2 entries- Eingangsstufe noun (threshold of a doorway)
- Türschwelle noun (threshold of a doorway)
Greek
1 entries- κατώφλι noun (threshold of a doorway)
Hungarian
1 entries- küszöb noun (threshold of a doorway)
Icelandic
1 entries- dyraþrep noun (threshold of a doorway)
Irish
2 entries- leac dorais noun (threshold of a doorway)
- tairseach noun (threshold of a doorway)
Japanese
1 entries- 戸口の踏み段 noun (threshold of a doorway)
Latin
1 entries- līmen noun (threshold of a doorway)
Macedonian
1 entries- праг noun (threshold of a doorway)
Marathi
1 entries- उंबरठा noun (threshold of a doorway)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اشیك noun (threshold of a doorway)
Polish
3 entries- pajda noun (thick slice of bread)
- próg noun (threshold of a doorway)
- skiba noun (thick slice of bread)
Portuguese
2 entries- fationa noun (thick slice of bread)
- soleira noun (threshold of a doorway)
Romanian
1 entries- prag noun (threshold of a doorway)
Russian
1 entries- поро́г noun (threshold of a doorway)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- prag noun (threshold of a doorway)
- праг noun (threshold of a doorway)
Slovak
1 entries- prah noun (threshold of a doorway)
Slovene
1 entries- prag noun (threshold of a doorway)
Spanish
1 entries- lumbral noun (threshold of a doorway)
Swedish
1 entries- tröskel noun (threshold of a doorway)
Thai
1 entries- ธรณีประตู noun (threshold of a doorway)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྒོའི་ཐེམ noun (threshold of a doorway)
Ukrainian
1 entries- порі́г noun (threshold of a doorway)
Welsh
2 entries- rhiniog noun (threshold of a doorway)
- trothwy noun (threshold of a doorway)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
An odd shoe was left on the doorstep.
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On the doorstep sits his old woman, with the broken wash-tub before her.
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As I found out later, the man who showed up on my doorstep asking for help was speaking Quechua.
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