stoep

Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep.

• IPA^(key): /stuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

stoep (plural stoeps)

1. A raised veranda in front of a house.
   • 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 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 1998, p. 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, 1983, p. 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?

• stoop

• ETOPS, Poets, Potes, T pose, T-pose, Topes, e-stop, estop, pesto, poets, poset, potes, septo-, stope, topes

From Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep.

• IPA^(key): /stup/

stoep (plural stoepe)

1. stoep, stoop, raised platform or veranda in front of a house

• → English: stoep

From Middle Dutch stoep. Cognate to German Stufe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /stup/

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• Hyphenation: stoep
• Rhymes: -up

stoep f (plural stoepen, diminutive stoepje n)

1. pavement, footpath, sidewalk

   Synonym: trottoir

2. stoop, platform before a (major) door into a building, doorstep

• stoepbank
• stoephoer
• stoepier
• stoeprand
• stoepsteen
• stoeptegel

• stap
• stappen

• Afrikaans: stoep
  • → English: stoep
• → English: stoop

• pesto, poets, poste, spote