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foyer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun foyer has 1 sense
- foyer(n = noun.artifact) antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, hall, lobby, vestibule - a large entrance or reception room or area; Array is a part of building, edifice
has particulars: narthex
is a kind of room
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A lobby in a theater; a greenroom. [1913 Webster]
- The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. Knight. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
foyer, n. the entrance hall or other large area in a hotel, theatre, etc.
Etymology
F, = hearth, home, ult. f. L focus fire
THESAURUS
foyer
ancestral halls, chimney corner, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, family homestead, fireplace, fireside, galilee, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homestead, household, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, lobby, menage, narthex, paternal roof, portal, portico, propylaeum, roof, rooftree, stoa, threshold, toft, vestibule
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