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# doorstep

«doorstep» in Mova's school dictionary: **the step or flat spot just outside the front door of a house** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a doorstep, doorsteps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A doorstep is the step or flat spot just outside the front door of a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#m1)

2) «On your doorstep» means very close to where you live. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life parcels, milk and post are left on the doorstep, and visitors wait there; in stories someone finds a basket or a lost cat on the doorstep. Phrases: «on the doorstep», «right on our doorstep» (very near), «leave it on the doorstep».

### examples

- The parcel was left on the doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x1)
- A little kitten was crying on our doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x2)
- Gran waved goodbye from the doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x3)
- Wipe your feet on the doorstep before you come in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x4)
- We have a beautiful beach right on our doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x5)
- The milkman used to leave bottles on the doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x6)
- Never open the door to strangers on the doorstep without a grown-up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x7)
- When he got home his mother was on the doorstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/#x8)

### note

Countable, written as one word. «On our doorstep» can mean literally at the door or simply «very close by». Safety: a stranger on the doorstep is still a stranger; check with an adult.

### In the corpora

- [It comes and goes like waves, and people show it in many ways, from tears to casseroles on the doorstep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/6/)
- [Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought: «Loyal to what, exactly?»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/11/)
- [A police officer stood on Kieran's doorstep asking about a bike stolen from outside the Co-op.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/384-when-the-police-come/1/)
- [She waits on the doorstep in her coat for two hours; he doesn't show and doesn't text.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/31/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «doorstep» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/doorstep/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.