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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noun1. : 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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the main door at the front of a house
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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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the main entrance to a house, usually at the front
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There's someone at the front door.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.