Entry Word: foyer

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a centrally located room in a building that serves as a gathering or waiting area or as a passageway into the interior <theatergoers crowded the foyer during the playʼs intermission>

Synonyms hall, lobby

Related Words entry, entryway, hallway, vestibule; concourse, corridor, gallery, passageway; antechamber, anteroom, waiting room

2 the entrance room of a building <leave your muddy boots in the foyer and come into the house> — see hall 1