reception room

1. 1.

   a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel)

   Broaderroom

   Narrowerdrawing roomparlor

Questions about reception room

What does reception room mean?

reception room means "a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel)".

Is reception room a common word?

reception room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.