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Meaning front meaning

What does front mean?
Definitions in simple English

front Noun

— Opposite of back. — The side of something that faces the direction it normally moves. — The side of a building with the building's main entrance. — In meteorology, the area where cold and warm air meet. When they meet it often causes rain to form. — In military usage: — #The direction of the enemy.

front Adjective

— Located at or near the front. When leaving the house, it is important to lock the front door.

front Verb

— To lead a group. The singer Bono fronts the band U2. — To give something to someone before they can pay for it. Since Tom did not have any money, Bill fronted him dinner and Tom paid him back the next day.

front

— noun the side that is forward or prominent — adjective relating to or located in the front the front lines the front porch — noun (= battlefront) the line along which opposing armies face each other — noun the outward appearance of a person he put up a bold front — noun the side that is seen or that goes first — verb (= look, face) 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 — verb (= breast) confront bodily breast the storm — noun (= front man) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity — noun the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer he walked to the front of the stage — noun (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses — noun a sphere of activity involving effort the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front they advertise on many different fronts — noun (= presence) 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 — noun (= movement) 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

Synonyms front synonyms

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front English » English

face fore frontage facade in front of in front forepart head frontal forward forehead first before battlefront anterior front line look foremost façade previous main head-on front-line front part confront ahead presence nominal head front man forefront face down early breast beginning advance this side take the lead strawman straw man social movement right side prow preceding movement line lead go in front future frontal surface front side

Front English » English

right side front face side face

Topics front topics

What do people use front to talk about?
States Location Here, there

In front of
States Parts of things

Front
Social behavior Conflict

War
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Parts of a building
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Put in front
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

Island, shore
Language and thought Communication Say True

Tell the truth
Social behavior Conflict War

Win
Work and occupation Working with buildings Building

Yard
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Door
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Room
Physical actions Posture

Lie down
Physical actions Move Not moving

Wait
States Time Relative time

Before

Conjugation front conjugation

How do you conjugate front?

front · verb

Examples front examples

How do I use front in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There is a bank in front of the station.
There is a bank in front of the hotel.
I have rather a busy afternoon in front of me.
When he went out the front door, the bus was just coming around the corner.
He sat in front of me.
Two boys stood in front of me.
In front of the train station there's a bank.
Tom spent most days begging for money in front of tourist attractions.
She stood in front of the mirror.
I parked on the street in front of your house.
You're supposed to meet Tom in front of his hotel in about an hour.
I have a sore back from sitting in front of the computer too many hours.
Tom is waiting in front of the restaurant.
No student has ever complained of pains in the front lobe of the left side of the brain.
They are waiting for you in front of the door.
Life lies in front of you.
All of a sudden, three dogs appeared in front of us.
There is a small garden in front of my house.
A number of cars are parked in front of my house.
There is a large parking lot in front of the station.
A lot of bicycles are illegally parked in front of the station.
I got a taxi in front of the station.
There is a fountain in front of the station.
You see some trees in front of the school.
We found the front door locked.
There is a garden in front of the house.
There is a post office in front of the station.
Turning to the right, you will find the city hall in front of you.
I sit in front of a computer screen all day, so I get pretty heavily bombarded by electro-magnetic waves.

Movie subtitles

Did he tell me to buy front leg?
She has leukemia and, later, dies in front of her lover.
Now is the time that we, the Japan Liberation Front, should make a stand!
When this planet passes in front of the star, it blocks out a tiny fraction of the light, dimming the star by a very small amount.
When Kepler sees a star that dims, it could be due to a speck of dust that crossed in front of the telescope.
Why is it in front of our cabin and not yours?
Why are they all gathered in front of the office like that?
I wanted to meet you so I was waiting in front of your house.
Locked and tight in the front.
So then I'm going front, back, front, back. and it's all dirty in the back, so when I move it to the front, then that gets all dirty.
Rebecca, making a speech like that in front of a potential client, that. was brave.
Like, in front of my face.
I'll treat the wounded on the front.
How'd you get to the front of the line so fast?
Don't approach him directly from the front.
It was right in front of my face, and I didn't see it.
Say something to your wife, who's dying in front of you.
Well, you see. in front of the people it wouldn't have worked!
And I see in front of me some scenes, which I do not find pictured too darkly here, on the white screen.
The front is not with you!
And so, with the flames of war crackling along a two-thousand mile front, troops bitterly needed to defend Russia played parade for the Czar.
Flowers in front!
I was sitting in front of the cabin, when I bagged 6 tigers.
I'd tell you that in front of the whole world.
And if you all move together, front and back, left and right.
In front of the box.
In, on, under, in front of, behind, between.
Does it suit me? You also have to practice being in front of people.
BEFORE YOU EVEN SHOWED UP AT MY FRONT DOOR. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? HOW COULD I?
Making an uproar in front of the main gate to the red-light district is uncouth.
All right, this one goes out to all the fellas in the front row with the, uh, construction boots, the, uh, button-down shirt, the cropped black hair. - Okay, they got it, Kells.
But, Sergeant, I'm convinced Lenny Antoine ran out in front of the car.
Tonight we're going to take it in turns to step up to the front and show all the other Cubs our Treasures From Home.

News and current affairs

Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively ruled out a northern front in the war.
When geo-strategic military front lines are non-existent, as in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, mass no longer equals victory.
Inter-state combat may still occur where strategic front lines can be found, such as Israel's border with Syria, India's border with Pakistan, and the border dividing the two Koreas.
Meles's own political provenance as the leader of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front was Marxist-Leninist.
For starters, the eurozone crisis is worsening, as the euro remains too strong, front-loaded fiscal austerity deepens recession in many member countries, and a credit crunch in the periphery and high oil prices undermine prospects of recovery.
The best evidence suggests that Americans watch more than five hours per day of television on average - a staggering amount, given that several hours more are spent in front of other video-streaming devices.
Time that used to be spent together in the community is now spent alone in front of the screen.
Again, many factors underlie this, including a diet of cheap, unhealthy fried foods, but the sedentary time spent in front of the TV is an important influence as well.
The crisis does provide a political opportunity for bold moves on this front in many countries; but structural reforms generally will not generate growth and jobs immediately (one exception is permitting shops to open longer).
On that front, there are promising signs.
Tropical climates and urban slums are humanity's front line against pandemics, and they should be equipped properly.
The path through international law engages lawyers and diplomats, but not the engineers, scientists, and community leaders on the front lines of sustainable development.
What has been unfolding in front of our eyes in the last four weeks has been a modern and reduced version of the balance-of-power system that dominated Europe and the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
First and foremost, mayors should be mobilized as mediators, because they are on the front line in implementing urban policy.
The up-front cost is a factor, too, especially for those on low budgets.
The ASEAN economies adopted a united front on international economic issues and accorded priority to internal economic integration and expanding linkages with major trading partners.
Moreover, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzu Abe, the front-runner to succeed him, has openly declared that he will continue to visit the shrine as prime minister.
All Quiet on the Burundi Front?
On an equally important front, the US is working with the United Nations to galvanize a global response to the danger posed by the Ebola virus.
Halliburton is now at the front of the line for Iraqi reconstruction projects, for which contracts are being handed out without any transparent and competitive process whatsoever.
The policy front will be equally unsettling.
On that front, too, America has been falling behind.
Another Islamist movement, Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, almost had such an opportunity in 1991, when it won the first round of a general election.
Juncker's changes, however, may portend genuine progress on this front, as well as toward monetary and energy union.
Argentina has been on the front pages of the world's newspapers, with stories describing an economic and social crisis born of debt default and devaluation, unemployment and widespread poverty.

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