English adjective: front | |||
1. | front relating to or located in the front | ||
Samples | The front lines. The front porch. | ||
Similar | advance, advanced, foremost, frontal, frontmost, head-on, in advance | ||
See also | anterior, first, fore | ||
Antonyms | back | ||
English noun: front | |||
1. | front (location) the side that is forward or prominent | ||
Synonyms | forepart, front end | ||
Broader (hypernym) | face, side | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | forefront, head | ||
Antonyms | back end, backside, rear | ||
2. | front (location) the line along which opposing armies face each other | ||
Synonyms | battlefront, front line | ||
Broader (hypernym) | line | ||
Part meronym | battlefield, battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor | ||
3. | front (cognition) the outward appearance of a person | ||
Samples | He put up a bold front. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | appearance | ||
4. | front (artifact) the side that is seen or that goes first | ||
Broader (hypernym) | side | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bow, facade, face, fore, frontage, frontal, frontispiece, nose, nose, nose cone, ogive, prow, shirtfront, shopfront, stem, storefront | ||
Antonyms | back, rear | ||
5. | front (person) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | ||
Synonyms | figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman | ||
Broader (hypernym) | beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster | ||
6. | front (state) a sphere of activity involving effort | ||
Samples | The Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front. They advertise on many different fronts. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere | ||
7. | front (phenomenon) (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses | ||
Broader (hypernym) | atmospheric phenomenon | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cold front, occluded front, occlusion, polar front, warm front | ||
Domain category | meteorology | ||
8. | front (location) the immediate proximity of someone or something | ||
Samples | She blushed in his presence. He sensed the presence of danger. He was well behaved in front of company. | ||
Synonyms | presence | ||
Broader (hypernym) | proximity | ||
9. | front (location) the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer | ||
Samples | He walked to the front of the stage. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | place, position | ||
Antonyms | back, rear | ||
10. | front (group) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | ||
Samples | He was a charter member of the movement. Politicians have to respect a mass movement. He led the national liberation front. | ||
Synonyms | movement, social movement | ||
Broader (hypernym) | social group | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | art movement, artistic movement, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, falun gong, Fighting French, Free French, oecumenism, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, Zionism, Zionist movement | ||
English verb: front | |||
1. | front (stative) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | ||
Samples | The house looks north. My backyard look onto the pond. The building faces the park. | ||
Examples | His fields front mine at this point | ||
Synonyms | face, look | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | lie | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | confront | ||
Verb group | face | ||
Antonyms | back | ||
2. | front (competition) confront bodily | ||
Samples | Breast the storm. | ||
Synonyms | breast | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | confront, face | ||