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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop.
Pronunciation
Noun
stoep (plural stoeps)
- A raised veranda in front of a house.
1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501:To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.
1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89:On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.
1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18:Why should the Police want us to spend nights hiding on other people's stoeps and beg in the streets and make a nuisance of ourselves?
Anagrams
- stope, potes, Topes, topes, pesto, estop, Petos, T pose, septo-, Poets, T-pose, poset, e-stop, ETOPS, Potes, poets
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep.
Pronunciation
Noun
stoep (plural stoepe)
- stoep, stoop, raised platform or veranda in front of a house
Descendants
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stoep, stoope, from Old Dutch *stōpa, from Proto-West Germanic *stōpā, related to the verb *stappjan (“to tread, step”).
Cognate to German Low German Stuuf, German Stufe, Old English stōpel (“footprint”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stup/
- Hyphenation: stoep
- Rhymes: -up
Noun
stoep f (plural stoepen, diminutive stoepje n)
- pavement, footpath, sidewalk
- Synonyms: trottoir, voetpad
- stoop, platform before a (major) door into a building, doorstep
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