Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
front room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Maureen was lying on the sofa in the front room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ From the front room, he heard the granddaughter clock chime four.
▪ I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.
▪ In the front room she started to hold prayer meetings that were almost like seances.
▪ Lilly stood at the window in the front room with her hands clasped behind her back, looking down into the woods.
▪ Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room.
▪ She glanced into the front room.
▪ The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.
▪ The killers were Silje's friends; they had spent many days in Beate's front room playing with the children.
Wiktionary
front room
n. 1 A living room 2 (context UK possibly dated English) A room, normally at the front of the house and kept unusually tidy, reserved for entertaining guests or for special occasions.
WordNet
front room
n. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room, sitting room, parlor, parlour]