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Front

noun

The side that is forward or prominent. Synonyms: forepart, front end.

The line along which opposing armies face each other. Synonyms: battlefront, front line.

The outward appearance of a person.

The side that is seen or that goes first.

A person used as a cover for some questionable activity. Synonyms: figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman.

A sphere of activity involving effort. "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. Synonym: presence. "He sensed the presence of danger" , "He was well behaved in front of company"

The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer.

10.

A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals. Synonyms: movement, social movement. "Politicians have to respect a mass movement" , "He led the national liberation front"

adjective

Relating to or located in the front. "The front porch"

verb

(past & past part. fronted; pres. part. fronting)

Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to. Synonyms: face, look. "My backyard look onto the pond" , "The building faces the park"

Confront bodily. Synonym: breast.

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"Front" Quotes from Famous Books

... in front. I supposed we had gone by some shorter way to the clearings. It was not so, for the next moment we emerged into the glade. ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... Spain in Cuba in 1898 the first troops that were sent to the front were four regiments of colored soldiers, and the service they rendered was distinguished by bravery ...

— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger

... strong party of the enemies horse coming hard upon them, their horse fired, killed and wounded severals of them, both horse and foot; after which they advanced to the enemies very faces, when, after giving and receiving fire, valiant Hackston being in the front, finding the horse behind him broke, rode in among them, and out at a side, without any damage; but being assaulted by severals with whom he fought a long time, they following him and he them by turns, until he stuck in a bog, and the foremost of them, ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... legal learning he was in the front rank. No one was more ready than he in ably written ...

— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.

... urgently necessary to see monsieur instantly. Monsieur will reflect upon the reception one would receive did one ring the front door-bell and demand audience at three ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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