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Definition of Stoop
1. Verb. Bend one's back forward from the waist on down. "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
Entails: Change Posture
Generic synonyms: Bend, Flex
Specialized synonyms: Squinch, Cower, Huddle
Derivative terms: Bow, Crouch, Stooper
Also: Stoop To
2. Noun. An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward.
3. Verb. Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way. "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
4. Noun. Basin for holy water.
5. Verb. Descend swiftly, as if on prey. "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
6. Noun. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
7. Verb. Sag, bend, bend over or down. "The rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
8. Verb. Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward. "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
Definition of Stoop
1. n. Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
2. n. A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
3. n. A post fixed in the earth.
4. v. i. To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
5. v. t. To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
6. n. The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Definition of Stoop
1. Noun. (US Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. ¹
2. Noun. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep. ¹
3. Verb. To bend oneself, or one's head, forward and downward. ¹
4. Verb. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals. ¹
5. Verb. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey. ¹
6. Noun. A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body ¹
7. Noun. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack. ¹
8. Noun. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoop
1. to bend the body forward and down [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoop
Literary usage of Stoop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1855 My aunt nearly fell down the stoop.— Waverley Mag., nd 1908 At the end of
the long Dutch " stoop " I found the wands of the ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Salon, 1851.—Gaz. des В. Arts (1878), xvii. 518 ; Century Mag. (1884), xxvii.
487. stoop, DIRK, born probably at Utrecht in 1610, died there in 1686. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"For brave Agenor saw, and through the ribs (Shown bare beside his buckler, as he
stoop'd) Smote him with brass-spiked spear, and loosed his limbs. ..."
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