What is another word for stoops?

Pronunciation: [stˈuːps] (IPA)

Stoops are steps leading up to a home's entrance that usually also act as a small porch to the front door. Its synonyms include porch, veranda, terrace, balcony, entryway, landing, and porch way. A porch or veranda is typically a larger structure that runs along the length of a house or building, while a terrace or balcony is an outdoor platform elevated from the ground, often supported by a railing. An entryway refers to the space directly inside the front door, while a landing is a flat section of stairs where they change direction. Porch way is a British term that refers to a covered walkway leading to a door.

What are the hypernyms for Stoops?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Stoops

He can speak a little as she stoops to hear him.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
They think Him at a loss when they see Him with hanging head tracing figures on the ground; they fancy their plot is successful, and, flushed with expected victory, they close in and lay their hands on his shoulder as He stoops, and demand an answer.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
She stoops to Conquer and The School for Scandal remain among genuine literary masterpieces.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen

Famous quotes with Stoops

  • When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
    Oliver Goldsmith
  • He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
    Jose Marti
  • I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is "nothing better" now to be had.
    C. S. Lewis
  • Now I begin to know at last, These nights when I sit down to rhyme, The form and measure of that vast God we call Poetry, he who stoops And leaps me through his paper hoops A little higher every time.
    Robert Graves
  • When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?
    Oliver Goldsmith

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