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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, literally, fireplace, from Vulgar Latin *focarium, from Latin focus hearth Date: 1833 an anteroom or lobby especially of a theater; also an entrance hallway ; vestibule

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the entrance hall or other large area in a hotel, theatre, etc. Etymology: F, = hearth, home, ult. f. L focus fire

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foyer Foy`er", n. [F., fr. LL. focarium fireplace. See Focus, n.] 1. A lobby in a theater; a greenroom. 2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. --Knight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(foyers) The foyer is the large area where people meet or wait just inside the main doors of a building such as a theatre, cinema, or hotel. = lobby N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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