Definitions for forecourt

forecourt fore·court

Spelling: [fawr-kawrt, fohr-kohrt]
IPA: /ˈfɔrˌkɔrt, ˈfoʊrˌkoʊrt/

Forecourt is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in forecourt (cefoorrtu).

Definitions for forecourt

noun

  1. Tennis. the part of either half of a tennis court that lies between the net and the line that marks the inbounds limit of a service. Compare backcourt (def 1).
  2. a courtyard before the entrance to a building or group of buildings.

Origin of forecourt

First recorded in 1525-35; fore- + court

Examples for forecourt

Colonel Sullivan sat in the upper room of one of the two towers that flanked the entrance to the forecourt.

She laid a taboo upon the forecourt, and enforced it by means of an armed man.

It is, however, very fine, and the forecourt most beautiful.

The forecourt gave privacy to the house even when in the centre of a town.

They walked on in silence across the forecourt of the palace to the priest's rooms.

In the forecourt he found one of the gardener's boys from the hanging-gardens.

He crossed the forecourt of the palace and rang at the priest's door.

He had glanced in the forecourt and seen that there was no room in it for him.

At the door of the forecourt Klea was met by Asclepiodorus, who desired her to follow him.

Uncle Ulick shook his fist at a particularly importunate beggar who had ventured across the forecourt.

Word Value for forecourt
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