English

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Etymology

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door +‎ -side

Adjective

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doorside (not comparable)

  1. Beside a door.
    • 2000, Patrick R. Penland, Hosteled Prodigal: Beyond Laundered Morality, page 300:
      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.

Noun

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doorside (plural doorsides)

  1. The area beside a door.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      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.