foyer

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”).

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.ɝ/, (also) /ˈfɔɪ.eɪ/, /fɔɪˈeɪ/
• (General Australian, Manchester^[1]) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɪ.ə/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)

foyer (plural foyers)

1. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

   Synonym: entrance hall

   We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.

   • 2012, Taylor Swift, “The Lucky One”, in Red (Taylor's Version)‎^[1], published 2021:

     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

   • 2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 May 2024:

     "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."

2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
3. (UK) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Borrowed from French foyer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoajɛː]
• IPA^(key): [ˈfoajɛːr]

foyer m inan or n

1. theater lobby, foyer

when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter.

Borrowed from French foyer, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French foier, from Vulgar Latin *focārium, from Late Latin focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

• IPA^(key): /fʋɑˈjeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: foy‧er
• Rhymes: -eː

foyer m (plural foyers, diminutive foyertje n)

1. foyer (lobby, waiting room or parlour)

• focus

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

• IPA^(key): /fwa.je/

• Audio:

  (file)

foyer m (plural foyers)

1. hearth
2. lobby, foyer
3. home, domicile
4. household
5. source, centre, seat

• homme au foyer
• femme au foyer

• feu

• “foyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French foyer, from Vulgar Latin *focārium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective focārius, from Latin focus. Doublet of fokus.

• IPA^(key): /fwaˈjɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: fo‧yer

foyer n (indeclinable)

1. foyer (lobby, corridor, or waiting room)

• foyer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• foyer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French foyer.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔajeː]

foyer m inan or n

1. foyer

Indeclineable in the neuter gender.

• “foyer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from English foyer or French foyer.

• IPA^(key): /fwaˈje/ [fwaˈje]
  • Rhymes: -e

• • Rhymes: -eɾ
  • Syllabification: fo‧yer

foyer m (plural foyers or foyer)

1. foyer