front door

American  

noun

• front doors
  plural

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.

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front door British  

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• front doors
  plural

Etymology

Origin of front door

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

front door

She has received notifications of movement from the camera at her front door, and said she has seen some “suspicious” people on her three Ring cameras, even yelling at them through her phone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Shortly after, the developer bulldozed the entire place, ripped out trees and erected a 4,700-square-foot box house complete with an eight-foot-tall tiger painted by the front door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

"It's so easy just to sit inside, and kids get bored so being able to go outside our front door, play and meet different people, it's really good."

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The front door is a good place to start, Perry added.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

On day twelve of this great spirit silence, Mr. Capron and Mr. Willets knocked at the front door.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock