noun
- The side that is forward or prominent.
- 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"
- Confront bodily.
- usage: "breast the storm"
- synonyms: breast
adjective
- Relating to or located in the front.
- usage: "the front lines"; "the front porch"
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