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- November 21 2024
- Stairway at a building's entrance
Stairway at a building's entrance
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Stairway at a building's entrance' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Stairway at a building's entrance crossword clue was last seen on November 21 2024 in the popular USA Today Crossword.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | STOOP | Stairway at a building's entrance | USA Today |
Definition
• | Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. |
• | A vessel of liquor; a flagon. |
• | A post fixed in the earth. |
• | To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position. |
• | To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection. |
• | To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. |
• | To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. |
• | To sink when on the wing; to alight. |
• | To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body. |
• | To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor. |
• | To cause to submit; to prostrate. |
• | To degrade. |
• | The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders. |
• | Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation. |
• | The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop. |
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