front door
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- noun
- /frʌnt dɔr/
:
puerta principal
- Please make sure to lock the front door before you leave the house.
- open the front door
- walk through front door
- get through front door
Yet when I exit my front door, I'm a crime suspect.
- Yet when I exit my front door, I'm a crime suspect.
- I can walk you out the front door to the street.
- They literally took the front door in midday off the hinges.
- So I opened the front door and who do I see?
- There was a note shoved under their front door in child block letters.
- If I make it to that front door, I'm done living this life.
- So right inside the front door we have, of course, hooks.
- And we walk up and our front door is like, open, like, cracked open.
- Like I physically ran through my door out the front door and then just bolted.
Examples
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After the party, everyone said goodbye at the front door.
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The front door was open.
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I can walk you out the front door to the street.
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And we opened the front door and it's like dead quiet.
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So I opened the front door and who do I see?
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Just like we lock the front door and it's time to go to bed.
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You come to the front door.
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The front doors are the only way out of the building.
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Is there another way out beside the front door?
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I want you to go down the stairs and out the front door.
Synonyms
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A thing in a wall, building or vehicle that opens so people can go in and out
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A door or opening that lets people go into a place
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1.2
An opening or door used to go into a building
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A space in a wall that is the entrance to a room or building
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2.6
A small area inside a building next to the front door where people enter
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The main door at the front of a building where people enter
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3.5
A space at the front of a building where people enter
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1.0
A door that leads from a building to the outside
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2.3
An entrance from the outside that people use to get into a building
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Morphology
The meaning 'the main door at the front entrance' is directly and compositionally derived from 'front' (the side nearest an entrance) + 'door' (an entry barrier). This is a common attributive noun + noun construction found across languages and follows straightforward semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Front door names the front door of a house or building, the door that faces the street or path. Because people normally use that door first, it came to mean the 'main entrance' or the 'primary way in or out'.