front door

English

Alternative forms

• frontdoor, front-door

Pronunciation

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Noun

front door (plural front doors)

1. The main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street
2. (computing) The normal portal page to a website.
3. (baseball) The path of a pitch which starts inside and then slides over the plate.

   His front door slider is hard to handle.

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

Synonyms

(main entrance to a building): foredoor

Translations

main entrance

• Chinese: 前門, 正門
• Dutch: voordeur f/m
• Finnish: etuovi, pääovi
• French: porte d’entrée (fr) f
• Greek: εξώπορτα (el) f (exóporta), κύρια είσοδος f (kýria eísodos)
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• Italian: entrata principale f
• Luxembourgish: Hausdier f
• Nogai: кируьв эсиги (kirüv ésigi)
• Scottish Gaelic: doras mòr m, doras a-muigh m

normal portal page to a website

• Chinese: 首頁, 主頁
• Finnish: etusivu (fi)
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• Italian: portale (it) m

See also

• back door