forecourt
IPA: fɔrkɔrt
noun
- (chiefly Britain) The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area.
- (chiefly Britain) Any open area in front of a building.
- In racket sports, the front part of the court.
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Examples of "forecourt" in Sentences
- She is also depicted on statuary in the forecourt.
- The forecourt of the palace is bustling with people.
- The gallery lies facing north on the forecourt side.
- It created a large crater in the forecourt of the building.
- A new walled forecourt was constructed in front of the pylon.
- The arches were built in 1845 to support the station forecourt.
- Guarini also added a large forecourt at the centre of the palace.
- The forecourt was a place of water (the lavar) and fire (the altar).
- In a gas station, a forecourt is the area where the pumps are present.
- The forecourt is the part of a filling station where vehicled are refueled.
- The pub is situated on the east side of the forecourt of Greenwich station.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.