FRONT ENTRANCE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does front entrance mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONT ENTRANCE (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 entrance" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "front entrance"):

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

 Context examples 

There was the clatter of running feet upon the pavement, and two policemen in uniform, with one plain-clothes detective, rushed through the front entrance and into the room.

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