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Front Door

Definition: Front Door

Front Door

Noun

1. Exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Front Door

Synonym: front entrance (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Front Door

English words defined with "front door": Fore door, front porch. (references)

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Modern Usage: Front Door

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm gonna stand at her front door till she lets me in. And I'm not leaving till I get her back (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

See that the back door and the front door are locked while I slip into my hunchback disguise (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

Nobody, I don't care who they are, is doing a two ton poo outaide my front door. (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

Right out the front door! (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

When these guys walk out the front door of whatever score they take next, they are going to have the surprise of a lifetime (Heat; writing credit: Michael Mann)

Lyrics

The front door might slam (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC)

When you try to see the world beyond your front door (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy (LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

I'm looking at the front door, (Code Red; performing artist: Prince)

Paint a different color on your front door (A Song For You; performing artist: The Drifters; writing credit: Gram Parsons)

Clever

Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Front Door

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bringing the Email Campaign Process Through the Front Door [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Close your back door as you widen the front door of your church : a practical approach to church development and empowerment (reference)

  • New Member Assimilation: Practical Prevention of Back Door Loss Through Front Door Care (reference)

  • Opening the Front Door of Your Church (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Front Door

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Front Door

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Shows two individual shots of front of building 1 (Shannon Building). One shot is a close up of front showing pillars and some surrounding building. Another shot shows super close up of front door and pillars. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Blondie. Dagwood, there's a note for you under your front door mat / Chic Young. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Little hall room over the front door, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial, Portsmouth, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

Front door, Boonsboro, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Family group, Yankoskis, standing by their front door. A log house. Beltrami Island reforestation project, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Master prints. Colonel Albert E. Peirce, residence in Warrenton, Virginia, front door, axis through columns. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dr. E. Hall Kline, residence on N. Broadway, Nyack, New York. View out front door. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Esther Wheeler, book photos at 1506 Woodside Ave., Baldwin, Long Island. Arrangement on front door. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pierce homestead, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Front door with original knocker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Front Door

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

You can always come in and go out by the front door.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The front door hung open inward, and a low strong gate across the front door hung outward on leather hinges

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Front Door

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

South Africa

In September, three men shot and killed Nzomtu Tutuka, a UDM branch leader, at his front door in an informal settlement area. (references)

Minorities

Russia

On September 24, vandals carved the Russian equivalent of the word "kikes" on the front door of the office of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Front Door

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Trisha Meili

I didn't go out through the front door of the courthouse. I went through an elevator down into a garage and got into a van and left that way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Front Door

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

front door

571

front door entry

57

exterior front door

25

home front door

25

front door wreath

7

front door knob

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Front Door

Language Translations for "front door"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

portë kryesore, hyrje (access, accession, adit, aisle, barrier, door, entrance, entry, gate, gateway, hall, hallway, incoming, induction, inflow, inflowing, ingoing, ingress, inlet, input, intake, intromission, lead in, opening, porch, portal, preamble, preface, prelude, proem, prolegomena, prologue, throat). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏باب السيارة (door). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предна врата, парадна врата. (various references)

   

Czech

  

domovní dveře. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ulko-ovi (outer door, street door), pääovi (main entrance). (various references)

   

French

  

porte d'entrée. (various references)

   

German

  

Haustür (frontdoor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μπροστινή πόρτα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"לת ראשית. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bejárati ajtó (front-door), utcai kapu, kapu (door, front-door, gate, gateway, home, port, portal, street door), külső kapu (front-door, outer door), főbejárat (front-door, main entrance). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

表玄関 (vestibule), 表口 , 玄関先 (entrance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもてぐち, おもて'"か" (vestibule), '"か"さき (entrance). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dorrys toshee, dorrys straiddey (street door). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

inngangsdør. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontfray oorday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

porta de entrada (gateway). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

uşã principalã, uşã de la intrare. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

парадный вход, парадное (street-door), парадная дверь (street door, street-door). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

glavni ulaz. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puerta principal (streetdoor), puerta de fachada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ytterdörr. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sokak kapısı, ön kapı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Front Door

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-f-n-o-o-o-r-r-t"

-4 letters: donor, fordo, frond, front, rondo, rotor, tondo.

-5 letters: door, dorr, fond, font, food, foot, ford, fort, odor, onto, ordo, rood, roof, root, roto, toon, torn, toro, torr, trod.

 Words containing the letters "d-f-n-o-o-o-r-r-t"
 

+5 letters: foreordination.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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