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stoep

/stuːp/

stoep noun: a raised veranda in front of a house.

Noun

stoep (plural stoeps)

  1. A raised veranda in front of a house.
    • To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501
    • On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89

stoep meaning in Tamil

stoep in Tamil

முகப்புத் தாழ்வாரம்

Forms of stoep

pluralstoeps

Origin of stoep

Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop.

Words that rhyme with stoep

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Questions about stoep

What does stoep mean?
Stoep means a raised veranda in front of a house.
What is stoep in Tamil?
Stoep in Tamil is முகப்புத் தாழ்வாரம். See Stoep meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stoep?
Stoep is a noun.
How do you pronounce stoep?
Stoep is pronounced /stuːp/.
What is the plural of stoep?
The plural of stoep is stoeps.

Words near stoep in the dictionary

  1. Stoeckers
  2. Stoehr
  3. Stoehrs
  4. stoemp
  5. Stoenești
  6. stoep
  7. Stoepker
  8. stoeps
  9. Stoer
  10. Stofberg
  11. Stoffer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoep (page history and authors); stoep (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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