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doorstoppers

doorstoppers is the plural of doorstopper.

Meaning of doorstopper

Noun

doorstopper (plural doorstoppers)

  1. A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
  2. (humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
    • So Steven Pinker is stretching the genre with his 450-page doorstopper Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress.2018, Joe Humphreys, Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress by Stephen Pinker review
  3. A gauge used in geophysics.

Questions about doorstoppers

What is doorstoppers the plural of?
Doorstoppers is the plural of doorstopper.

Words near doorstoppers in the dictionary

  1. doorsteps
  2. doorstone
  3. doorstones
  4. doorstop
  5. doorstopper
  6. doorstoppers
  7. doorstops
  8. doorward
  9. doorwards
  10. doorway
  11. doorway page

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doorstoppers (page history and authors); doorstopper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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