Noun: stoep
| Singular | stoep |
| Plural | stoeps |
Sample Sentences
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To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows. [1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501:]
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On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths. [1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89:]
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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? [1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18:]
Nouns inflected like stoep
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop. See: Dutch Nouns '
stoep'.