front door

noun

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

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

Words nearby front door

front bottom, front burner, front burner, on a, front court, front dive, front door, front foot, front four, front line, front list, front load

Origin of front door

First recorded in 1740–50

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Examples from the Web for front door

Smiling, but somehow disillusioned, she jumped out, and her impetus carried her to the front-door.
Howards End|E. M. Forster
A distant rumbling was heard of the carriage driving under the stable archway on its way to the front-door.
Red Pottage|Mary Cholmondeley
They went in to dinner, Edward feeling very uncomfortable, and keeping his ear alert for the front-door bell.
Mrs. Craddock|W. Somerset Maugham
I would not segregate them, because I respect a man's free-will and his front-door and his right to be tried by his peers.
Eugenics and Other Evils|G. K. Chesterton

Sleds and ploughs rust together beside the house, and chickens scratch up the front-door yard.
Little Rivers|Henry van Dyke

British Dictionary definitions for front door

front door

noun

the main entrance to a house

an open legitimate means of obtaining a job, position, etcto get in by the front door

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front door

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