FRONT

Pronunciation (US):

• FRONT (noun)
  The noun FRONT has 10 senses:

1. the immediate proximity of someone or something
2. the side that is forward or prominent
3. the side that is seen or that goes first
4. a sphere of activity involving effort
5. the line along which opposing armies face each other
6. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
7. (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
8. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
9. the outward appearance of a person
10. the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer

  Familiarity information: FRONT used as a noun is familiar.

• FRONT (adjective)
  The adjective FRONT has 1 sense:

1. relating to or located in the front

  Familiarity information: FRONT used as an adjective is very rare.

• FRONT (verb)
  The verb FRONT has 2 senses:

1. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
2. confront bodily

  Familiarity information: FRONT used as a verb is rare.

• FRONT (noun)

Meaning:

The immediate proximity of someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

front; presence

Context examples:

she blushed in his presence / he sensed the presence of danger / he was well behaved in front of company

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

proximity (the region close around a person or thing)

Meaning:

The side that is forward or prominent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

forepart; front end; front

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front"):

forefront; head (the part in the front or nearest the viewer)

Antonym:

rear (the side of an object that is opposite its front)

Meaning:

The side that is seen or that goes first

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

side (an extended outer surface of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front"):

bow; fore; prow; stem (front part of a vessel or aircraft)

shopfront; storefront (the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows)

shirtfront (the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket))

nose cone; ogive (front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere)

nose (the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon)

nose (a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft))

frontispiece (front illustration facing the title page of a book)

face (the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object))

facade; frontage; frontal (the face or front of a building)

Antonym:

rear (the side that goes last or is not normally seen)

Meaning:

A sphere of activity involving effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context examples:

the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front / they advertise on many different fronts

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)

Meaning:

The line along which opposing armies face each other

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

front line; battlefront; front

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

line (a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops))

Holonyms ("front" is a part of...):

battlefield; battleground; field; field of battle; field of honor (a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought)

Meaning:

A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

social movement; movement; front

Context examples:

he was a charter member of the movement / politicians have to respect a mass movement / he led the national liberation front

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front"):

falun gong (a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices)

political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)

reform movement (a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms)

religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)

Zionism; Zionist movement (a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine)

ecumenism; oecumenism (a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches))

cultural movement (a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals)

common front (a movement in which several individuals or groups with different interests join together)

Civil Rights movement (movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens)

Boy Scouts (an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys)

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

Fighting French; Free French (a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic)

Meaning:

(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front"):

warm front (the front of an advancing mass of warmer air)

cold front; polar front (the front of an advancing mass of colder air)

occluded front; occlusion ((meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft)

Meaning:

A person used as a cover for some questionable activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

strawman; straw man; nominal head; front man; figurehead; front

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)

Meaning:

The outward appearance of a person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he put up a bold front

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

appearance (a mental representation)

Meaning:

The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

he walked to the front of the stage

Hypernyms ("front" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)

Antonym:

back (the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer)

• FRONT (adjective)

Meaning:

Relating to or located in the front

Context examples:

the front lines / the front porch

Similar:

frontal; head-on (meeting front to front)

foremost; frontmost (preceding all others in spatial position)

advance; advanced; in advance (situated ahead or going before)

Also:

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body)

first (preceding all others in time or space or degree)

fore (situated at or toward the bow of a vessel)

Antonym:

back (related to or located at the back)

• FRONT (verb)

Meaning:

Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

front; face; look

Context examples:

The house looks north / My backyard look onto the pond / The building faces the park

Hypernyms (to "front" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "front"):

confront (be face to face with)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sentence example:

His fields front mine at this point

Antonym:

back (be in back of)

Meaning:

Confront bodily

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

front; breast

Context example:

breast the storm

Hypernyms (to "front" is one way to...):

confront; face (oppose, as in hostility or a competition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something