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Definition of Front

Front The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house. The most conspicuous part. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. The beginning. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. To appear before; to meet. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east. All the works along one side of the polygon inclosing the site which is fortified. The middle of the upper part of the tongue, -- the part of the tongue which is more or less raised toward the palate in the pronunciation of certain sounds, as the vowel i in machine, e in bed, and consonant y in you. See Guide to Pronunciation, /10. The call boy whose turn it is to answer the call, which is often the word "front," used as an exclamation. Related Definitions: Above, Adorn, Against, All, Along, Also, An, And, Answer, Any, Anything, Appear, Army, As, Back, Be, Bed, Before, Beginning, Bold, Boldness, Boy, Brow, By, Call, Certain, Character, Church, Confront, Consonant, Conspicuous, Countenance, Directed, Direction, Directly, Disposition, East, Especially, Exclamation, Expressive, Face, False, Fore, Forehead, Foremost, Fortified, Forward, Front, Guide, Hair, Hardened, Have, Having, Head, His, Hostile, House, Impudence, In, Inclosing, Is, It, Laurel, Less, Look, Machine, Manner, Marble, Meet, Middle, More, Most, Of, Often, One, Oppose, Opposed, Opposite, Or, Out, Over, Palate, Part, Person, Personal, Piece, Polygon, Position, Presence, Pronunciation, Raised, Rank, Rear, Relating, See, Seeming, Side, Site, Sometimes, Stand, Street, Supply, Surface, Temper, That, The, Thing, To, Tongue, Toward, Turn, Upper, Used, Van, View, Vowel, Which, Whole, Whose, With, Women, Word, Worn, You

Front Quotations I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6. John Legend True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde Lead from the front. Audie Murphy I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. James E. Jones

Front Translations front in Dutch is voorzijde, voorkant front in French is front front in German is Vorderseite front in Italian is facciata, facciata front in Latin is frons front in Norwegian is front, forside, fasade front in Portuguese is parte dianteira front in Spanish is fachada, delantera

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