doorsill

1. 1.

   the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway

   Synonymsdoorstepthreshold

   Broadersill

   Part ofdoorway

Other forms of doorsill

plural

doorsills·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about doorsill

What does doorsill mean?

doorsill means "the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway".

How many syllables are in doorsill?

doorsill has 2 syllables: door-sill. The stress falls on "door". In IPA it is /ˈdɔɹsɪl/.

What is another word for doorsill?

Close synonyms include doorstep, threshold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is doorsill a common word?

doorsill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.