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

During the war, the number of dissidents murdered by Hamas’s Arrow Unit enforcers has increased sharply, their bodies dumped in the street or delivered to the front door of their families.

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A reputed member of the Locas, Wertz allegedly impersonated an FBI agent in an attempted home invasion robbery in February, hammering on the front door while holding a gun.

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Instead, his co-winner Bob Wilson was forced to walk over to Milgrom's house, dressed in his pyjamas, and deliver the news through the security camera on his front door.

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Inside, she called her husband while the defendants "continued to bang on the front door".

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A business has been allowed to keep its front door pink days after it was ordered to repaint it to blend in with the rest of the street.

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