doorstep

noun

1. a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
2. British Slang. a thick slice of bread.

noun

1. a step in front of a door
2. on one’s doorstep very close or accessible
3. informal a thick slice of bread

verb -steps, -stepping or -stepped (tr)

4. to canvass (a district) or interview (a member of the public) by or in the course of door-to-door visiting
5. (of a journalist) to wait outside the house of (someone) to obtain an interview, photograph, etc when he or she emerges

n.

1810, from door + step (n.).

see under at one’s door (on one’s doorstep).