FRONT ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does front room mean? 

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

1. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONT ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room

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

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front room"):

common room (a sitting room (usually at school or university))

morning room (a sitting room used during the daylight hours)

salon (elegant sitting room where guests are received)

Holonyms ("front room" is a part of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

 Context examples 

If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries.

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

Miss Cushing was sitting in the front room, into which we were ushered.

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

The front room was plainly furnished as a sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon the back of one of the wharves.

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

The front room served as bedchamber and living room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At first I had supposed the dead man's chest to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The two Abbots and I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by, and Miss Nash came and scolded us away, and staid to look through herself; however, she called me back presently, and let me look too, which was very good-natured.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Perceiving a light in the front room, he advanced into the passage and again knocked, but without reply.

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

Both he and the Lascar stoutly swore that no one else had been in the front room during the afternoon.

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

A moment later he and I were back in the front room, where the impassive lady was still quietly working away at her antimacassar.

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

She put the book in the front room on top of the family Bible.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)