Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A courtyard in front of a building.
- n. Sports The part of a court nearest the net or wall, as in tennis or handball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The front or first court in a series of courts or courtyards; the court or inclosed space in front of a building.
Wiktionary
- n. The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated.
- n. Any open area in front of a building.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings
Examples
“My big problem with it was what to call it because you can also buy them in the U.K. in what we call garage forecourts--where you go to a gas station and fill up is called a forecourt in the U.K.--and you can buy these roses there as well.”
“I’m sure the garage forecourt is ** VERY** sorry and won’t do it again, but it didn’t want to speak to me. on February 14, 2007 at 3: 19 pm | Reply Joe Public”
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“The forecourt was a place of water (the lavar) and fire (the altar).”
“The petrol station - now no longer in operation, weeds pushing up through the forecourt was the first thing she passed after the ` Welcome to Banehall 'sign.”
“The location of the church (in the background) on the west side of the Lower Agora, which after the construction of the temple had become so to speak a forecourt of the shrine, as was the case with several other temples related to the emperor's cult.”
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“In the forecourt was a royal seat of polished jasper, and in the middle of the platform was a basin of purest water that flashed like a mirror.”
“The forecourt was a good place for meeting friends, taking very small children to play, or just to get away from the rest of one's family.”
“Half way down the forecourt is the formal fountain of Ceres by Evelyn”
“Workers at the showroom say they get 'splattered like a dalmatian' if they stand about too long in the forecourt, which is right next to a waste transfer station where rubbish is taken before being sent to landfill sites.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Parked on the forecourt is the black Bentley saloon he collected in December bearing the identifying lettering hayemaker, Haye's ring nickname and his brand name.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Storm Thief
Words and phrases from Chris Wooding's book, Storm Thief.
chit, lean-to, panopticon, hobnail, periscope, shanty, flout, racket, lathe, dynamo, kiln, gurn and 44 more...
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monovocalic trysyllable
There must be some natural English word that contains the same vowel three times. 'English' excludes Bopomofo and Rin Tin Tin; 'natural' excludes contrived things like highlight-like, unhumdrum. An...
abdabs, alate, aye-aye, backpack, bedstead, bow-wow, civic, deadhead, dojo, earthwork, earthworm, forecourt and 43 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Campaigners and politicians have warned that predicted increases in petrol prices by as much as 8% would cripple Scotland's economy.
The Retail Motor Industry Independent Petrol Retailers Association (RMI Petrol) said rises in VAT and fuel duty were forcing up costs at forecourts."
- Anger at looming fuel price rises, BBC website, 10 August 2010.
Aug 10, 2010