FRONT DOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does front door mean? 

• FRONT DOOR (noun)
  The noun FRONT DOOR has 1 sense:

1. exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building

  Familiarity information: FRONT DOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONT DOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

front door; front entrance

Hypernyms ("front door" is a kind of...):

exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)

Meronyms (parts of "front door"):

doorknocker; knocker; rapper (a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door)

 Context examples 

I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And with these words he hastily left the room, and Elizabeth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"You've got to cut it short. Be sure and lock the front door. I'll go out the back. Get a move on!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The front door usually stood hospitably open.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We scrambled from rock to rock, until in a few moments we had made our way to a point from which we could see the front door of the inn.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The front door was open, and Boy Jim was waiting there to meet us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We've all forgotten a name, where we put our keys, or if we locked the front door.

(Memory, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

As Ruth's front door closed behind them and he came down the steps with her, he found himself greatly perturbed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"Good-bye to Gateshead!" cried I, as we passed through the hall and went out at the front door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a gentleman's carriage, a curricle, but only coming round from the stable-yard to the front door; somebody must be going away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)