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doorside

doorside adjective: beside a door.

Adjective

doorside (not comparable)

  1. Beside a door.
    • Startled by the fury of his own unforeseen vengeance, he groped over to the doorside switch, turned on the light and opened the hallway door.2000, Patrick R. Penland, Hosteled Prodigal: Beyond Laundered Morality, page 300

Noun

doorside (plural doorsides)

  1. The area beside a door.
    • And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Forms of doorside

pluraldoorsides

Origin of doorside

From door + -side.

Questions about doorside

What does doorside mean?
Doorside means beside a door.
What part of speech is doorside?
Doorside can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near doorside in the dictionary

  1. doorposts
  2. doors
  3. doors of perception
  4. doorset
  5. doorsets
  6. doorside
  7. doorsides
  8. doorsill
  9. doorsills
  10. doorslab
  11. doorslabs

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