reception area
noun
: a large open area inside and near the entrance of a public building (such as a hotel or theater) : lobby
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Margouleff led me through a tidy workshop and into a reception area with a kitchenette and a wall of a half-dozen supersized Vox amps.
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Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
There’s a large main platform that acts as both a sterile reception area in a corporate office building and an uncluttered runway for the quick change drag antics of one of the show’s two characters.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2025
In it, Megan crashes her car through the wall of a reception area and poses in various waiting room scenes, including a fish tank and chessboard.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2025
The record arrives alongside a chaotic music video that finds the rapper twisting into contortions on top of a reception area desk, dancing in the desert, and posing in a fish tank.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
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Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
There’s a large main platform that acts as both a sterile reception area in a corporate office building and an uncluttered runway for the quick change drag antics of one of the show’s two characters.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2025
In it, Megan crashes her car through the wall of a reception area and poses in various waiting room scenes, including a fish tank and chessboard.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2025
The record arrives alongside a chaotic music video that finds the rapper twisting into contortions on top of a reception area desk, dancing in the desert, and posing in a fish tank.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for reception area
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“Reception area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reception%20area. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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