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FRONT DOOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building
Synonyms:
front door; front entrance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("front door" is a kind of...):
exterior door; outside door (a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building)
Meronyms (parts of "front door"):
doorknocker; knocker; rapper (a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door)
Context examples:
He immediately went into the passage, opened the front door, and ushered her in himself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Here is a long passage—what an enormous perspective I make of it!—leading from Peggotty's kitchen to the front door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then, thinking that I was still asleep, she slipped noiselessly from the room, and an instant later I heard a sharp creaking which could only come from the hinges of the front door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Grant himself went out with an umbrella, there was nothing to be done but to be very much ashamed, and to get into the house as fast as possible; and to poor Miss Crawford, who had just been contemplating the dismal rain in a very desponding state of mind, sighing over the ruin of all her plan of exercise for that morning, and of every chance of seeing a single creature beyond themselves for the next twenty-four hours, the sound of a little bustle at the front door, and the sight of Miss Price dripping with wet in the vestibule, was delightful.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She went, however; and when they reached the farm, and she was to be put down, at the end of the broad, neat gravel walk, which led between espalier apple-trees to the front door, the sight of every thing which had given her so much pleasure the autumn before, was beginning to revive a little local agitation; and when they parted, Emma observed her to be looking around with a sort of fearful curiosity, which determined her not to allow the visit to exceed the proposed quarter of an hour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off the hinges, and said, Frederick told me to lock the door, but surely it can nowhere be so safe if I take it with me.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There are grounds round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about a hundred yards from the front door.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The front door was open, and figures were rushing down the drive.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Early that morning he was out himself to the front door, nervously racing through the many-sheeted newspaper.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
"Go and eat your dinner, you'll feel better after it. Men always croak when they are hungry," and Jo whisked out at the front door after that.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
