Synonyms:
threshold
Meaning: the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"
Synonyms:
threshold, limen
Meaning: the smallest detectable sensation
Synonyms:
doorway, door, room_access, threshold
Meaning: the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway"
Synonyms:
doorsill, doorstep, threshold
Meaning: 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
Usage examples
Now stand on that threshold.
Stretching himself flat he crept to the threshold.
"Carry us from this threshold of eternity to our own world."
His confederate was in the act of stepping across the raised threshold.
The Spider, spying on the threshold of her abyss, lets him have his way.
The meal is taken outside the guard-room, on the threshold, never indoors.
'No, while he is eating it,' said the second boy, stepping across the threshold.
'Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,'
The banker passed across the threshold, which he had not crossed for five-and-thirty years until to-day.
"Oh!" he murmured, as he left the threshold of the palace: "ungrateful court! faithless court! cowardly court!