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

We inched along a corridor into a huge reception room.

From Literature

On the ground floor, next to their 4-year-old grandson’s toy cars, is a reception room with a wooden door.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Related Words

• foyer
• vestibule