doorside

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adjective

Beside a door.

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Meanings

adjectivedoorside (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBeside 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
noundoorside (plural doorsides)

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

Origin

From door + -side.

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Cite this entry
APA

doorside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorside

MLA

“doorside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorside. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doorside,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorside.

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