stoop.

1. Steps or a small platform at the entrance to a building.

2. To bend the body downward or forward.

3. To lower one’s standards or dignity by undertaking an action regarded as unworthy.

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Words that belong together

• front stoop
• stone stoop

On the page

He waited on the front stoop rather than entering the hall.

Rain gathered along the edge of the stone stoop.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Noun singular stoop; plural stoops. Verb stoop; third-person stoops; past and participle stooped; present participle stooping. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: stoops.