English Explanatory Dictionary

front

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
  2. The side of a building with the main entrance.
  3. A field of activity.
  4. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
  5. The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
  6. An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
  7. The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
  8. The direction of the enemy.
  9. When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
  10. A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
  11. Cheek; boldness; impudence.
  12. A woman's breast.
adj
  1. Located at or near the front.
  2. Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
  3. Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
verb
  1. To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
  2. To face, be opposite to.
  3. To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
  4. To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
  5. To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
  6. To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
  7. To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
  8. To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
  9. Of an alter in a person with multiplicity (especially in dissociative identity disorder): to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the person's body.
  10. To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
  11. To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
  12. To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
intj
  1. Used to summon a worker on duty, such as a bellhop.

Pronunciation

/fɹʌnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-front.wav en-us-front.ogg en-au-front.ogg /fɹʊnt/

Word forms

front fronts further front farther front furthest front farthest front fronting fronted

Etymology

From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.

Synonyms

fore frontperson frontman front man first lead prompt put on airs feign

Antonyms

back rear derrière last

Related words

affront effrontery front vowel

Derived words

active front afront anafront arctic front back to front back-to-front battlefront beachfront bifront blockfront bowfront breakfront bristlefront buttonfront catafront cherry blossom front cold front common front company front confront creekfront firefront fly front forefront frontage frontal front and center front and centre front bencher front-bencher front bench frontbench front bottom front bum front bumper front burner front butt front company front controller pattern frontcountry frontcourt front crawl front curtain front-desk front desk front door front double biceps front drive front end front-end front-end loader front end loader front-end processor front-facing front fee front-foot front foot front-footed front foot shot front garden

Translations

Southern Altai: алд Southern Altai: алдыҥы Arabic: أَمَام Arabic: قدام Arabic: ڭدّام Azerbaijani: qabaq Azerbaijani: ön Bashkir: ал Central Bikol: atubangan Bulgarian: чело́ Catalan: front Catalan: cara Chamicuro: tolo Chinese Mandarin: 正面 Crimean Tatar: aldı Czech: předek Danish: forside Danish: front Dutch: voorkant Dutch: voorzijde Esperanto: antaŭo Finnish: etupuoli Finnish: edusta Finnish: etuosa French: avant French: devant Galician: dianteira Galician: frente German: Frontseite German: Vorderseite Greek: πρόσοψη Hungarian: eleje Icelandic: framhlið Indonesian: hadapan Ingrian: esipooli Ingrian: eelus Italian: davanti Italian: difronte Italian: avanti Italian: frontale Italian: parte anteriore Italian: facciata Japanese: 前 Japanese: 前側 Japanese: 手前 Javanese: ngarep Old Javanese: harĕp Korean: 앞 Latvian: priekša Latvian: priekšpuse Lithuanian: priekis Lithuanian: priešakys Malay: depan Malay: hadapan Māori: mua Maranao: hadap Nanai: дюлиэ Norwegian Bokmål: front Norwegian Bokmål: forside Norwegian Bokmål: framside Norwegian Bokmål: fremside Norwegian Nynorsk: front Norwegian Nynorsk: framside Persian: جلو Polish: przód Polish: front Portuguese: dianteira Portuguese: frente Russian: пере́дняя часть Russian: пе́ред
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