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ADJECTIVE | 1 | front | Relating to or located in the front |
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2 | front, fore | Located anteriorly | |
NOUN | 1 | front, presence | The immediate proximity of someone or something |
2 | front, front end, forepart | The side that is forward or prominent | |
3 | front | The side that is seen or that goes first | |
4 | front | A sphere of activity involving effort | |
5 | front, battlefront, front line | The line along which opposing armies face each other | |
6 | front, movement, social movement | A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | |
7 | front | (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses | |
8 | front, front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman | A person used as a cover for some questionable activity | |
9 | front | The outward appearance of a person | |
10 | front | The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer | |
VERB | 1 | front, look, face | Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point |
2 | front, breast | Confront bodily |
Sounds | frah'nt |
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Rhymes | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, and 654 more rhymes in ahnt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Relating to or located in the front. |
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Examples | "the front lines"; "the front porch" |
Similar | advance, advanced, in advance; foremost, frontmost; forward; frontal, head-on |
See also | anterior; first; fore |
Contrary | back |
Meaning | Located anteriorly. |
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Synonyms | fore |
Similar to | anterior |
Meaning | The immediate proximity of someone or something. |
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Examples | "he was well behaved in front of company" |
Synonyms | presence |
Broader | proximity |
Meaning | The side that is forward or prominent. |
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Synonyms | front end, forepart |
Narrower | forefront, head |
Broader | side, face |
Contrary | rear, backside, back end |
Verbs | front; front |
Meaning | The side that is seen or that goes first. |
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Narrower | bow, fore, prow, stem; facade, frontage, frontal; face; frontispiece; nose; nose; nose cone, ogive; shirtfront; shopfront, storefront |
Broader | side |
Contrary | rear, back |
Verbs | front |
Meaning | A sphere of activity involving effort. |
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Examples | "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts" |
Broader | sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena |
Meaning | The line along which opposing armies face each other. |
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Synonyms | battlefront, front line |
Part of | battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field |
Broader | line |
Meaning | A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals. |
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Examples | "he led the national liberation front" |
Synonyms | movement, social movement |
Narrower | Free French, Fighting French; artistic movement, art movement; Boy Scouts; Civil Rights movement; common front; cultural movement; falun gong; political movement; reform movement; religious movement; Zionism, Zionist movement |
Broader | social group |
Meaning | (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses. |
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Category | meteorology |
Narrower | warm front; cold front, polar front; occluded front, occlusion |
Broader | atmospheric phenomenon |
Adjectives | frontal |
Meaning | A person used as a cover for some questionable activity. |
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Synonyms | front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
Broader | deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker |
Meaning | The outward appearance of a person. |
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Examples | "he put up a bold front" |
Broader | appearance |
Meaning | The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer. |
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Examples | "he walked to the front of the stage" |
Broader | position, place |
Contrary | back, rear |
Verbs | front |
Meaning | Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point. Be opposite to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Model | His fields front mine at this point |
Synonyms | look, face |
Narrower | confront |
Broader | lie |
Contrary | back |
Similar to | face |
Nouns | front; front; frontage |
Meaning | Confront bodily. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | breast |
Broader | confront, face |
Nouns | front; front |