front door

noun

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.

front door

noun

1. the main entrance to a house
2. an open legitimate means of obtaining a job, position, etc

   to get in by the front door

Word History and Origins

Origin of front door¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

If the front door wasn’t open, the back door would have to do.

From Washington Post

Maybe a woman heard it when the front door clicked open, announcing the homecoming of the boyfriend who hits her sometimes.

From Washington Post

Ocasio-Cortez started roaming the office and opening doors as staffers barricaded the front door with furniture.

From Washington Post

Publishers know Americans are going to be hunkered down at home for another few months of coronavirus-created isolation, so some of them are hoping to drive more revenue by going right through readers’ front doors.

From Digiday

When I parted the curtains that hung just past its front door, they revealed a dark, narrow room with square tables lined up along a long wooden banquette.

From Eater

Black smoke rolled through the front door and the entire structure was gone to Hell in minutes.

From The Daily Beast

When Singh finally showed up at the front door of his home in Amritsar, his family was overwhelmed with relief.

From The Daily Beast

Pulcini had locked the front door of the convent, but now he found it open.

From The Daily Beast

When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.

From The Daily Beast

She snatched her purse from the kitchen counter and stormed out the front door, past his duffel bags.

From The Daily Beast

Then they all passed out through the great front door to the wide old veranda.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Orgreave, having taken Clayhanger to the front door, did not return immediately into the breakfast-room.

From Project Gutenberg

He had found the front door open, and had followed his ring by walking in unceremoniously.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a small front porch, upon which a long window and the front door opened.

From Project Gutenberg

An hour afterwards he knocked at the front door, Anne Honeywood admitted him.

From Project Gutenberg