What is the meaning of front?

noun

• The side that is forward or prominent.
  • synonyms: front end, forepart
• The line along which opposing armies face each other.
  • synonyms: battlefront, front line
• The outward appearance of a person.
  • usage: "he put up a bold front"
• The side that is seen or that goes first.
• A person used as a cover for some questionable activity.
  • synonyms: front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
• A sphere of activity involving effort.
  • usage: "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
• Meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses. (
• The immediate proximity of someone or something.
  • usage: "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company"
  • synonyms: presence
• The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer.
  • usage: "he walked to the front of the stage"
• A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
  • usage: "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
  • synonyms: movement, social movement

verb

• Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to.
  • usage: "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park"
  • synonyms: look, face
• Confront bodily.
  • usage: "breast the storm"
  • synonyms: breast

adjective

• Relating to or located in the front.
  • usage: "the front lines"; "the front porch"