🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

로비

Pronunciation / Transliteration: robi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Foyer/ˈfɔɪ.ər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"우리는 호텔 로비에서 만났다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An entrance hall, lobby, or reception area in a hotel, theater, public building, or house.

    "Guests gathered in the spacious hotel foyer before moving into the main ballroom for the reception."
  2. 2

    A public lobby in a theater or opera house where patrons can socialize before the show or during intermissions.

    "The theater foyer was filled with excited playgoers chatting during the intermission."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word foyer, originally meaning hearth or fireplace, which comes from the Latin focus meaning fireplace or domestic hearth. In the 19th century, the meaning evolved in theatrical architecture to denote the room where actors and audience gathered around a central heating stove during intermissions, eventually generalizing to mean an entrance lobby or reception hall.

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