Definitions for front

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front front

Spelling: [fruhnt]

IPA: /frʌnt/

Front is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in front (fnort).

Definitions for front

noun

1. the foremost part or surface of anything.
2. the part or side of anything that faces forward:
3. the part or side of anything, as a building, that seems to look out or to be directed forward:
4. any side or face, as of a building.
5. a façade, considered with respect to its architectural treatment or material:
6. a property line along a street or the like:
7. a place or position directly before anything:
8. a position of leadership in a particular endeavor or field:
9. Military. the foremost line or part of an army. a line of battle. the place where combat operations are carried on.
10. an area of activity, conflict, or competition:
11. land facing a road, river, etc.
12. British. a promenade along a seashore.
13. Informal. a distinguished person listed as an official of an organization, for the sake of prestige, and who is usually inactive.
14. a person or thing that serves as a cover or disguise for some other activity, especially one of a secret, disreputable, or illegal nature; a blind:
15. outward impression of rank, position, or wealth.
16. bearing or demeanor in confronting anything:
17. haughtiness; self-importance:
18. the forehead, or the entire face:
19. a coalition or movement to achieve a particular end, usually political:
20. something attached or worn at the breast, as a shirt front or a dickey:
21. Meteorology. an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses.
22. Theater. the auditorium. the business offices of a theater. the front of the stage; downstage.

Idioms

1. in front, in a forward place or position:
2. in front of, ahead of: outside the entrance of: in the presence of:
3. out front, outside the entrance: ahead of competitors: Theater. in the audience or auditorium. Informal. candidly; frankly:
4. up front, Informal. in advance; before anything else: frank; open; direct:

adjective

1. of or relating to the front.
2. situated in or at the front:
3. Phonetics. (of a speech sound) articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of lay.

interjection

1. (used to call or command someone to come, look, etc., to the front, as in an order to troops on parade or in calling a hotel bellboy to the front desk):

verb (used with object)

1. to have the front toward; face:
2. to meet face to face; confront.
3. to face in opposition, hostility, or defiance.
4. to furnish or supply a front to:
5. to serve as a front to:
6. Informal. to provide an introduction to; introduce:
7. to lead (a jazz or dance band).
8. Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound) at a position farther front in the mouth.
9. Linguistics. to move (a constituent) to the beginning of a clause or sentence.

verb (used without object)

1. to have or turn the front in some specified direction:
2. to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature:

Origin of front

1250-1300; Middle English frount, front Anglo-French, Old French Latin front- (stem of frōns) forehead, brow, front

Examples for front

Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?

I fetched up at an exit on the side street, and there they were directly in front of me.

In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

When it is cold, the dog finds a spot in front of the stove.

Granted, James is in an office in the Pentagon, and not on the front lines.

Then they heard fresh howls and yells in front as well as behind.

Wagons halted in front of the locality, and were soon piled with spectators.

The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.

As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”

Will madame be so good to enter our petit salon at the front, n'est-ce-pas?