Threshold is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for THRESHOLD in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the sill of a house door; the place or point of entering
• a strip of wood or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room
• a point of entry or beginning
• the beginning of an airport runway on which an aircraft is attempting to land.
• the magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested
• the maximum level of radiation or a concentration of a substance considered to be acceptable or safe
• the level at which one starts to feel or react to something
• a level, rate, or amount at which something comes into effect
• bar forming the bottom of a doorway
• The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
• Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
• the starting point for a new state or experience
• the smallest detectable sensation
• the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
• the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
• a region marking a boundary
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door; sill

Words related to THRESHOLD

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Words that contain THRESHOLD

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How to use THRESHOLD in a sentence

• He paused again and listened, and then strode across the threshold.
• The gorgeous color of the place stopped him, on the threshold.
• The house door closed, and after a little the study door opened, and Nogam halted on the threshold.
• Here once my step was quickened, Here beckoned the opening door, And welcome thrilled from the threshold To the foot it had felt before.
• He has promised to the Marechale to save them from the dangers of the night, and has brought them in safety to his own threshold.
• On his threshold, utterly sober, carrying himself with the assurance of the master in his own house, he would not have suffered by comparison with any man.
• Otherwise you risk offending the kind gods of the hearth and threshold.
• You would never have been permitted to cross their threshold again.
• As he mounted, he saw the doors of the castle open, and saw his friend standing on the threshold, waving his cap and beckoning to him.
• If we could discover any law governing this feeling of half-way-between-ness, that might well indicate the threshold.
• Odysseus looked upon the young lords who wooed his wife, and then he sat down upon the threshold and went no further into the hall.
• It would have rolled away a great stone, which to such a mind might otherwise have stood as a stumbling-block on the very threshold of truth.
• As in that other time there shone a streak of light through the crevice between the bottom of the door and the threshold.
• We stand on the threshold of a new time when all mankind feels in unity.
• It followeth that whatever soul shall offer his aid to bring this about will assuredly be accepted at the Heavenly Threshold, and extolled by the Company on High.
• Such are the attributes of the righteous, such is the distinguishing mark of those who serve His Threshold.
• I round the threshold wandering here, Vainly the tempest and the rain invoke, That they may keep my lady prisoner.
• From the moment I crossed the threshold the defence was practically at an end.
• The house has since been converted into bank premises and its threshold lowered for the convenience of customers.
• The sore-pressed officer crossed the threshold of the porter.
• But the day had come, the sky was red, and the sun was near its rising before he took courage and dared to cross the threshold.
• At any minute a step might sound on the threshold, and herald the promise of life.
• It opened, and he saw Louis Gentilis on the threshold.
• The last man to rise was Snap Naab, and he had slept with his head on the threshold of the door.
• Sylvia stood on the threshold an instant, shy and uncertain as to how she should make herself known.
• With hushed breath and a beating heart, Wilford stepped across the threshold and Helen closed the door, leaving him alone with the living and the dead.
• Half an hour later a female form passed hurriedly through the hall and across the threshold into the chamber where the dead man lay.

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