front door

noun

exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building (Freq. 10)

• Syn: ↑front entrance

• Hypernyms: ↑exterior door, ↑outside door

• Part Meronyms: ↑knocker, ↑doorknocker, ↑rapper

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noun

1. : the main entrance to a dwelling or apartment having more than one entrance : a doorway fronting on or giving direct access to a street or road

2.

a. : a place or area affording the main or best approach or access (as to a country)

the war would then be brought directly to the front door of the Americas — Emil Lengyel

b. : an open direct forthright approach or a legal approach toward gaining some object

should do it directly and openly, through the front door — Yale Review

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1. the main entrance to a house or other building, usually facing a street.

2. Informal. anything offering the best, most direct, or most straightforward approach to a place, situation, objective, etc.

[1740-50]

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front door noun

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Main Entry: ↑front

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front door UK US noun [countable] [singular front door plural front doors] ★

the main door at the front of a house

Thesaurus: doors and windows_hyponym parts of doors and windows_meronym

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front door,

1. the main entrance of a house or dwelling.

2. Figurative. the main approach to a place or objective: »

... Lanchow, an ancient city on the Silk Route around the Tibetan mountains into Russia and western Asia: classical China's “front door” (New Scientist).

3. Figurative. an open and aboveboard approach to any objective: »

[He] is hoping to get by the back door what [he] failed to obtain through the front door of the House of Lords last year (London Times).

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ˌfront ˈdoor [front door front doors] noun

the main entrance to a house, usually at the front

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There's someone at the front door.