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The outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings
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forecourt
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carson parked the Mercedes on the forecourt off the road, and walked around to help Alison out. ▪ He walked up the drive to the forecourt . ▪ In front of this was usually the atrium or forecourt . ▪ On the forecourt stood a horse-drawn ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In architecture , a forecourt is an open area in front of a structure's entrance. In archaeology , forecourt is the name given to the area in front of certain types of chamber tomb . They were likely the venue of ritual practices connected with the burial ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly British English) The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated. 2 (context chiefly British English) Any open area in front of a building.
Usage examples of forecourt.
She and her secretary watched me critically from the forecourt of the airfreight offices.
They were walking slowly across the forecourt now, between the stunted remains of its stout columns towards the facade of the hypostyle hall.
Sharantyr stared at him for a moment, openmouthed, then whirled about and raced away across the forecourt.
Paks came into the forecourt to find familiar colors there: three horses with saddlecloths of the familiar maroon and white, with a tiny foxhead on the corners, and a pennant held by someone she had never seen before.
Garages and workshops occupy the arches of the viaduct, their doors opening onto shabby forecourts of granite setts slippery with oil.
They pulled up in the hotel forecourt, where a number of police were standing around loosely, and went through to the front lobby.
Ambulances and private cars still jammed the hospital forecourt, bringing more and more people to the wards, even though the regular ambulance drivers had almost all sickened and died.
The forecourt took up as much space as the glass-fronted showrooms, the offices, and the workshops together.
In the forecourt beyond, torches were being lit, placed in sconces around the court, light flaring and smoke streaming toward the heavens.
Thus for one moment I was alone in the marble forecourt, by a chuckling fountain: at once vast wingbeats came, and the horse of heaven.
The throb of the pumps on the garage forecourt, the gallons ticking away.
Uniformed cops were cordoning off the forecourt of the 7-Eleven store when the homicide squad screeched to a halt, sirens wailing.
On the second it took a short cut through the forecourt of Mr Dugdale's garage neatly severing the stanchions that had formerly supported the roof and demolishing four petrol pumps and a sign advertising free tumblers.
I found these growing on the apricot tree in the forecourt, as I was passing through just now.
She parked the Renault neatly in the forecourt and went into the booking hall.