1 a step outside a door of a building, or the area that is very close to the door:
The police turned up on their doorstep at 3 o'clock this morning.
2 (BrE, informal) a thick piece of bread, usually one that is made into a sandwich
IDIOMS
on the / your doorstep very close to where a person lives:
The nightlife is great with bars and clubs right on the doorstep.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for doorstep is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is doorstep a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, doorstep is tagged as noun.
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