reception room

American  

noun

1. a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.

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reception room British  

noun

1. a room in a private house suitable for entertaining guests, esp a lounge or dining room

2. a room in a hotel suitable for large parties, receptions, etc

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Etymology

Origin of reception room

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

A black, polished sliding door delivers you into a reception room whose pomp is disciplined by marble piers, dark patinated-bronze framing panels, and—most memorably—walls sheathed in gold mosaic and red marble.

From The Wall Street Journal

Two years and £250,000 later, the building was fitted with central heating, a kitchen, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, four reception rooms and an extension.

From BBC

One of the screens can "within an hour" be turned into a reception room able to host up to 200 people.

From Barron's

There Ms Coker was met by "three young teenage girls sitting in the reception room with nurses' uniforms on".

From BBC

Sitting in his reception room in the Vatican, Archbishop Gallagher said even he had been stunned by the magnitude of the void he feels has been left by the Pope's death.

From BBC

Related Words

• foyer
• vestibule