front room

noun

1. a room at the front of a house, especially a parlor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of front room¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

Installing lagging over kitchen pipes and sealing cracks in the windows in the front room also made a huge difference to her.

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She was later found in her front room, laying on her back, clothed but with her underwear around her ankles.

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When they emerged minutes later, they found their windows shattered and layers of dust and debris strewn across the front room.

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A sharp, funny woman with shoulder-length white hair, Susan tells me her story from her sunny front room somewhere in southern England.

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Was it something they ever anticipated at their first practice, the first Tuesday after Glastonbury, in the front room of his parents' house?

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Related Words

• drawing room 
• sitting room