Definition of Front room

1. Noun. A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.

Exact synonyms: Living Room, Living-room, Parlor, Parlour, Sitting Room
Specialized synonyms: Common Room, Morning Room, Salon
Group relationships: Abode, Domicile, Dwelling, Dwelling House, Habitation, Home
Generic synonyms: Room

Definition of Front room

1. Noun. A living room ¹

2. Noun. (''British (formerly?)'') A room, normally at the front of the house and kept unusually tidy, reserved for entertaining guests or for special occasions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Front Room

front man
front matter
front men
front money
front name
front names
front of house
front of the house
front organization
front organizations
front page
front pages
front porch
front projector
front ring
front room
front rooms
front row
front runner
front runners
front running
front slash
front teeth
front tooth
front vowel
front wall
front walls
front yard
front yards
frontad

Literary usage of Front room

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"In the front room he had his office on one side and a bar on the other. ... The door on the street, which furnished access to the front room, ..."

2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1905)
"... PICTORIAL And Second Story front room Companion Vol. i.] San Diego, Oct. i, 1853. [No. i. Portrait of His Royal Highness Prince Albert. ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"On the second floor, лз on the first, there were four rooms, and these were let to two families, each family having a front room and a smaller back room, ..."

4. The Ohio Law Journal (1883)
"A counter runs from the front window on the east side of the front room back into the ... The beer and other liquors are kept in the front room, behind the ..."

5. Carpentry and Building (1905)
"The front room in the basement is sometimes used as a dining room, but more often as a servants' sitting room, and back of this are the servants' offices, ..."

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