doorstop

1. 1.

   a stop that keeps open doors from moving

   Synonymsdoorstopper

   Broadercatch

Other forms of doorstop

plural

doorstops·

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 doorstop

What does doorstop mean?

doorstop means "a stop that keeps open doors from moving".

How many syllables are in doorstop?

doorstop has 2 syllables: door-stop. The stress falls on "door".

What is another word for doorstop?

Close synonyms include doorstopper. 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 doorstop a common word?

doorstop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.