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Definition of Front room
1. Noun. A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.
Specialized synonyms: Common Room, Morning Room, Salon
Group relationships: Abode, Domicile, Dwelling, Dwelling House, Habitation, Home
Generic synonyms: Room
Definition of Front room
1. Noun. A living room ¹
2. Noun. (''British (formerly?)'') A room, normally at the front of the house and kept unusually tidy, reserved for entertaining guests or for special occasions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Front Room
Literary usage of Front room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"In the front room he had his office on one side and a bar on the other. ...
The door on the street, which furnished access to the front room, ..."
2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1905)
"... PICTORIAL And Second Story front room Companion Vol. i.] San Diego, Oct.
i, 1853. [No. i. Portrait of His Royal Highness Prince Albert. ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"On the second floor, лз on the first, there were four rooms, and these were let
to two families, each family having a front room and a smaller back room, ..."
4. The Ohio Law Journal (1883)
"A counter runs from the front window on the east side of the front room back into
the ... The beer and other liquors are kept in the front room, behind the ..."
5. Carpentry and Building (1905)
"The front room in the basement is sometimes used as a dining room, but more often
as a servants' sitting room, and back of this are the servants' offices, ..."
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