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reception room
noun
- a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
reception room
noun
- a room in a private house suitable for entertaining guests, esp a lounge or dining room
- a room in a hotel suitable for large parties, receptions, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reception room1
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Example Sentences
I was sitting in a foyer called the “Diplomatic Reception Room” when President Obama walked in.
Their portraits now hang in the Senate Reception Room of the Capitol.
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
A gray-haired man with a bustling manner and wearing glasses came through the reception room and Mark stopped him.
I take the pasteboard, return it to my case, and walk slowly out of the reception-room.
Another man was sprawled on the gray broadloom of the reception room, a brownish puddle beneath his side.
In one of the courts was a plain-columned hall on the level of the ground, which served as a reception-room.
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