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A while ago, one of Wordle games is “foyer” and for some reason I didn’t get it. I had only several alphabets left, but I didn’t consider the possibility of “f” going with “y” even though I know what the word foyer means when I see it. It’s all Wordle’s fault–it is getting more difficult than before. I could have gone online to find the answer in a scramble or unscramble website, but I was too lazy to do it.
Here I compiled some words about the front of a building or a house. Basically all the words related to foyer.
foyer and lobby
- foyer: In British English, it means the entrance area of a theatre or a hotel, but in North America, it most likely means the entrance area of a house or an apartment where people put a little side table with several picture frames or a little decorations.
- lobby: The entrance area to a big building. This word has evolved to mean influence others. A lobbyist means a professional who is employed by a company to sit in the lobby and try to influence politicians who work in the building.
porch and portico and veranda
- porch and veranda both means the same thing–an open aired, roofed structure immediately outside of the house.
- portico: A portico is a bigger porch with colonnades and decorations. It will lead to the entrance of a big house or building.
vestibule: This is a kind of foyer, but people don’t use this word very often.
screened porch or sunroom: a porch that has walls made of screens.
waiting room, antechamber, anteroom: a small room leading to a main one.
facade and frontage: the face of a building
entryway, hallway, passageway, walkway, doorway, corridor, aisle: a long, narrow way, typically having walls either side, that allows access between buildings or to different rooms within a building.
concourse: a large area inside or in front of a public building, as in an airport or train station
atrium: an open-roofed entrance hall or central court in an ancient Roman house.
Haoyan Do 
Most of these terms are geographically specific. One has to use them to know them. Nice sharing, Haoyan. 🙂
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So true. In different regions, people talk about them in different terms. For example, I heard “porch” very often here, but I guess other words are used for the same purpose in other areas of the world.
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interesting architectural tidbits. i’ve always loved the word portico, it sounds so grand….but, vestibule for some reason, sounds like a biology term. 🙂 idk…go figure.
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Haha, yes, I agree. Vestibule sounds like vertebrate or vestiges… I’ve never heard vestibule being used though…
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Idk…I can’t get pustule out of my mind when I hear it :0
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Some words can ring in the ears, like music.
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Nice list of words sparked off by foyer and thanks to wordle!!🥰👍🌹
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I never used the word “porch” till I moved to Canada. I always used “veranda.” Great list of words.
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Thank you for the encouragement. Yes, I learned veranda in school with British English textbooks, and then in North America, it is all porch…
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Yeah I learnt the British versions at school too.
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I have always loved the word vestibule. My Mom used it. But then again, I still say “ice box” for “refrigerator” because that’s the word she used!
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Hahaha, that’s so funny since in certain other languages, refrigerator is called “cold box”. I guess different languages come to the same conclusion on certain items.
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Great post once again! I veey much enjoyed it and I had to smile because I regularly use the word “Foyer”, which also exists as a foreign word in German and has some kind of old-fashioned touch. One would rather use “anteroom (Vorraum)” instead of foyer. But I like the word and in some regards I am old-fashioned. Like using “fauteuil” or “chaiselongue” or “chauffeur” etc. Besides … I do love the French language, its elegance, the melodic sound … even though my French is very very basic.
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Thank you for sharing so many interesting words. Is foyer French? I once thought of picking up a bit of French, but then I heard that French is very difficult to pronounce right. That really stopped me from trying since I have struggled with my English pronunciation for so long and still can’t tell one vowel from another. LOL.
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Yes, it’s French. I guess it’s not the easiest language when it comes to pronunciation because some letters are silent, others are not pronounced as they are written, etc.
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The foyer/lobby US/UK thing is interesting. In the UK the word “lobby” is often used to mean a small area in a house that isn’t exactly a room or a corridor. It has the same political meaning in the UK as the US however. The word “foyer” is used as you say in the UK.
Today’s Wordle is a word I’ve never heard used in the UK!
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You are right. I’ve never really heard anybody using today’s wordle word here, but I guess it is the influence of Spanish on English here, which is quite a lot. I heard Spanish so often that I’ve started to learn Spanish, but still after a year of learning, I can’t understand a word when two cashier at HMart talking with each other. I don’t understand a word of it. Hahaha.
Yes, I was quite confused with foyer, lobby, anteroom etc. at first, but the confusion seemed to fade when one becomes fluent and has more natural feel about the language.
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Anonymous above is “Blackthorn” BTW. I must be doing something wrong!
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Yes, I realized it last time when it happened. Thank you for clarification.
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I love the way you play with words and their meaning.
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Thank you for the encouragement.
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Great! I had a lot to learn from this post
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Thanks. I try to compile all the words related with foyer, but then I realized that are more words referring to different kind of spaces in a house. I am thinking of doing another one to include all the other words as well. LOL. Thank you for the encouragement.
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I’m looking forward to another interesting post! 💗
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