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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
threshold
/ˈθɹeʃ(h)əʊld/
noun
a level or point at which something would start or stop happening.
- “Please take your shoes off before crossing the threshold.”Tatoeba
- “He has never crossed the threshold of my house.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)