front room
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1.2
- noun
- UK
:
sala de estar
- After a long day, I like to relax in the front room with a good book.
So in the front room you'd find Eddie Deal, Sam Brown.
- So in the front room you'd find Eddie Deal, Sam Brown.
- So our family had pubs, and if they didn't have pubs, they had someone's front room that might as well have been a pub, you know?
- And that's basically where Megadeth was born, was out of my cousin John's front room in Dana Point.
- We have an appointment time and we're picking up a desk for the front room, which we're very excited to be setting up today.
- So we lived in a three Storey house, so downstairs with the kitchen, middle landing was the front room, Sharon's bedroom, top landing was mum's and my bedroom and Craig's.
Examples
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I'm going into the front room, where we found that cold spot.
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When she returned to the front room, Robert was contemplating the snowfall.
Fiction book (1998) -
Oh, so you had the front room... nice.
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Honey, will you come out to the front room by the door?
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Go wait for me in the front room.
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I gave him $100, cash, right there in the front room.
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Belle entered the house and went directly to the front room, where she started talking on the phone.
Fiction book (1995) -
We'll wait for Elliott in the front room.
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"We thought we'd be more comfortable in the front room," said my mother.
Fiction book (1994) -
You could hear the roar of the crowd from your front room, couldn't you?
Synonyms
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1.0
An area in a building with walls, a floor, and a ceiling
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1.0
A room in a house where people relax and sit together, for example to watch TV
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4.4
A room in a house or inn where people sit to talk and meet guests
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1.0
A room in a house where people relax and spend time together
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1.6
A room in a house where people sit and talk
1
7.0
A room in a house facing east that people use for sitting during the day
Antonyms
How Comfortable
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1.0
617
1.0
- UK
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1.2
- UK
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1.6
4
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room at the front of a house used for sitting and relaxing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'front' (the side nearest an entrance) modifying 'room' (an indoor area). This straightforward modifier + head-noun pattern is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun front room comes from older houses where the front room was the room at the front kept clean for guests. Because it was the 'front' place to welcome people, the phrase came to mean 'a living room' or the place where people sit and relax.