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doorstep

1 noun
     
Related topics: Food Dish, House
door‧step1 [countable]
1DHH a step just outside a door to a house or building
2

on somebody's/the doorstep

a) very near someone's home:
Wow! You've got the beach right on your doorstep!
b) at someone's home:
I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep.
3DFF British English informal a very thick piece of bread
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