front door

noun

1. the main entrance to a house or other building, usually facing a street.
2. Informal. anything offering the best, most direct, or most straightforward approach to a place, situation, objective, etc.

front door

noun

1. the main entrance to a house
2. an open legitimate means of obtaining a job, position, etc

   to get in by the front door

Word History and Origins

Origin of front door¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

Visible through one of the windows flanking the front door, she sat so still that she might have been mistaken for a statue, like the lion-dogs that guard the entrance to a Shinto shrine.

From Los Angeles Times

The fire caused significant damage to the front door and smoke damage throughout the house.

From BBC

She said some local residents had opened their front doors to ask police for information about what had happened.

From BBC

Seconds later they were knifed down in the street, yards from Mason’s front door.

From BBC

Ken McWaid raced out the front door to his work truck and followed his wife.

From Los Angeles Times