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Definition: Front Door |
Front DoorNoun1. 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 DoorSynonym: front entrance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Front Door |
| English words defined with "front door": Fore door, front porch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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 |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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