welcome mat

1. 1.

   a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering

   Synonymsdoormat

   Broadermat

Questions about welcome mat

What does welcome mat mean?

welcome mat means "a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering".

What is another word for welcome mat?

Close synonyms include doormat. 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 welcome mat a common word?

welcome mat 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.