Associations to the word «Doorstep»

Wiktionary

DOORSTEP, noun. Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
DOORSTEP, noun. (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
DOORSTEP, noun. A big slice of bread.
DOORSTEP, verb. (transitive) (journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

Dictionary definition

DOORSTEP, noun. The sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin