Synonyms of the word

lobby

• n. An entryway or reception area; vestibule; passageway; corridor.
• n. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly.
• n. A class or group of people who try to influence public officials; collectively, lobbyists.
• n. (video games) A virtual area where players can chat and find opponents for a game.
• n. (nautical) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.
• n. A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges, trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard.
• n. A margin along either side of the playing field in the sport of kabaddi.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a…
• n. (informal) scouse (from lobscouse).

antechamber

• n. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.

anteroom

• n. A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

beg

• v. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
• v. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
• v. (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
• n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
• abbr. (knitting) beginning.

buttonhole

• n. A hole through which a button is pushed to secure a garment or some part of one.
• n. (chiefly Britain) a flower worn in a buttonhole for decoration.
• v. To detain (a person) in conversation against their will.

foyer

• n. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
• n. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
• n. (Britain) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

hall

• n. A corridor; a hallway.
• n. A meeting room.
• n. A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
• n. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
• n. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
• n. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd.

people

• n. Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two…
• n. (countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group,…
• n. A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.
• n. One's colleagues or employees.
• n. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
• n. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the…
• n. plural of person.
• v. (transitive) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
• v. (intransitive) To become populous or populated.
• v. (transitive) To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

room

• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
• adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
• n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
• n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
• n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
• n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
• n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
• n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
• n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
• n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
• n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
• n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
• n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
• n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
• n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
• v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

solicit

• v. To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
• v. To woo; to court.
• v. To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
• v. To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
• v. To make a petition.
• v. (archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
• v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.

tap

• n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
• n. A device used to dispense liquids.
• n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
• n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
• n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
• n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
• n. An interception of communication by authority.
• v. To furnish with taps.
• v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
• v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
• v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
• v. To intercept a communication without authority.
• v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
• v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
• n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
• v. To strike lightly.
• v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
• v. To make a sharp noise.
• v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
• v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
• v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
• v. To put a new sole or heel on.
• n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
• n. tap dance.
• n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
• n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
• n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

vestibule

• n. (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a…
• n. (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
• n. (medicine, anatomy, by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.