Noun: foyer
| Singular | foyer |
| Plural | foyers |
Sample Sentences
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We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.
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Now it's big black cars and Riviera views / And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you / And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page [2012, Taylor Swift, “The Lucky One”, in Red (Taylor's Version), published 2021:]
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"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were." [2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024:]
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Near-synonym: vestibule
Nouns inflected like foyer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”). See: French Nouns '
foyer', Latin Nouns '
focus', Spanish Nouns '
hogar'.
Verbs referencing "foyer"
Spanish Nouns
hogar, Spanish Nouns
foyer, Spanish Nouns
hoguera, Galician Nouns
fogar.