front door

English

Alternative forms

• frontdoor, front-door

Pronunciation

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Noun

front door (plural front doors)

1. (literally) The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.
2. (by extension) The entire main entrance to a building or house.
3. The habitual or designated main entrance to a room that has more than one door.

   Entry through the toilet's front door.

4. (computing) The normal portal page to a website.
5. (baseball) The path of a pitch which starts inside and then slides over the plate.

   His front door slider is hard to handle.

6. (slang) vagina or penis, as a means of sexual intercourse, contrasted with the anus or "back door"

Synonyms

(main entrance to a building): foredoor

Translations

main entrance

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前門／前门 (zh) (qiánmén), 正門／正门 (zh) (zhèngmén)

• Dutch: voordeur f/m
• Finnish: etuovi, pääovi
• French: porte d'entrée f
• German: Vordertür f, Haustür f
• Greek: εξώπορτα f (exóporta), κύρια είσοδος f (kýria eísodos)
• Italian: entrata principale f
• Japanese: 表口 (おもてぐち, omoteguchi), 表門 (おもてもん, omotemon), 表戸 (おもてど, omotedo)
• Korean: 앞문 (ammun), 전문(前門) (jeonmun)
• Luxembourgish: Hausdier f
• Nogai: кируьв эсиги (kirüv ésigi)
• Polish: drzwi wejściowe f pl, drzwi frontowe f pl
• Russian: пере́дняя дверь f (perédnjaja dverʹ), пара́дная дверь f (parádnaja dverʹ), пара́дный вход m (parádnyj vxod)
• Scottish Gaelic: doras mòr m, doras a-muigh m
• Swedish: ytterdörr

normal portal page to a website

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 首頁／首页 (zh) (shǒuyè), 主頁／主页 (zh) (zhǔyè)

• Finnish: etusivu
• Italian: portale m

See also

• back door