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threshold
- /ˈθɹɛʃəʊld/ UK
- /ˈθɹɛʃˌhəʊld/ UK
- [ˈθɹɛʃˌhɒʊɫd] UK
- /ˈθɹɛ.ʃoʊld/ US
- /ˈθɹɛʃ.hoʊld/ US, nonstandard
Rhymes with -əʊld
Where it comes from
From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þresċold, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þreskūþlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskaną, *þreskwaną (“to thresh, (originally) to tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, turn”).
Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Norwegian Bokmål terskel (“threshold”), Norwegian Nynorsk treskald (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).
Pronunciations such as “thresh-hold” are un-etymological and result from analogy with hold.
noun thresholds
- The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill. Near-synonym: doorstep
- An entrance; the door or gate of a house. Shy. You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]
- Any end or boundary.
- The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action. on the threshold of maturity
- The start of the landing area of a runway.
- The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
- The point where one is mentally or physically vulnerable in response to a provocation or to other nuisances.
