'Front' definitions:

Definition of 'front'

From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch" [ant: back(a)]
noun
The side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, front end, forepart] [ant: back end, backside, rear]
noun
The line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: battlefront, front, front line]
noun
The outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
noun
The side that is seen or that goes first [ant: back, rear]
noun
A person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman]
noun
A sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
noun
(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
noun
The immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company" [syn: presence, front]
noun
The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage" [ant: back, rear]
noun
A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: movement, social movement, front]
verb
Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: front, look, face] [ant: back]
verb
Confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: front, breast]

Definition of 'Front'

From: GCIDE
  • Front \Front\ (fr[u^]nt), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.]
  • 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. [1913 Webster]
  • Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front; hence, an attitude and demeanor intended to represent one's feelings, even if not actually felt; as, to put on a good front. [1913 Webster +PJC]
  • With smiling fronts encountering. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The inhabitants showed a bold front. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. [1913 Webster]
  • Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The most conspicuous part. [1913 Webster]
  • The very head and front of my offending. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. [1913 Webster]
  • Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The beginning. "Summer's front." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Fort.) All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 9. (Phon.) The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect]10. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 10. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation. [Hotel Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions.
  • Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance.
  • Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. --Farrow.
  • Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. --Farrow.
  • To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Front'

From: GCIDE
  • Front \Front\, a. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Front'

From: GCIDE
  • Front \Front\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.]
  • 1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. [1913 Webster]
  • You four shall front them in the narrow lane. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To appear before; to meet. [1913 Webster]
  • [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. [1913 Webster]
  • And then suddenly front the changed reality. --J. Morley. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. [1913 Webster]
  • Yonder walls, that pertly front your town. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Front'

From: GCIDE
  • Front \Front\, v. t. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'front'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Front'