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Front

noun

The side that is forward or prominent. Synonyms: forepart, front end.

The line along which opposing armies face each other. Synonyms: battlefront, front line.

The outward appearance of a person.

The side that is seen or that goes first.

A person used as a cover for some questionable activity. Synonyms: figurehead, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman.

A sphere of activity involving effort. "They advertise on many different fronts"

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

The immediate proximity of someone or something. Synonym: presence. "He sensed the presence of danger" , "He was well behaved in front of company"

The part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer.

10.

A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals. Synonyms: movement, social movement. "Politicians have to respect a mass movement" , "He led the national liberation front"

adjective

Relating to or located in the front. "The front porch"

verb

(past & past part. fronted; pres. part. fronting)

Be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to. Synonyms: face, look. "My backyard look onto the pond" , "The building faces the park"

Confront bodily. Synonym: breast.

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"Front" Quotes from Famous Books

... immediately turned and vigorously engaged in battle. The army of Manoury, the first to get ready, sprang forward to the attack. It thrust back the German forces which were at first inferior in number, and it attained on the evening of the 5th the Pinchard—St. Soulplet—Ver front; but Von Kluck threw two army corps over the Marne and hurled himself on Manoury. He summoned from Compiegne all the reenforcements at his disposal, and he placed all his heavy artillery between Vareddes and May-en-Multien. During the day of September ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in 1664, Cardinal Chigi, the pope's nephew, came to Paris, to tender the pope's apology to Louis. The guilty individuals were punished; the Corsicans banished for ever from the Roman States; and in front of the guard-house which they had occupied a pyramid was erected, bearing an inscription which embodied the pope's apology. This pyramid Louis permitted Clement IX. to destroy ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... of Henry VIII. in the cartoon were, as Leemput's copy shows, faithfully carried out in the painting; but in the latter the face was afterwards turned to the full front view familiar to us in the many copies of the King's portrait which so long passed as works of Holbein, on the strength of reproducing his own painting. There is no evidence that he ever again painted ...

— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... days it was difficult to extract real thrills from the Vera Cruz situation, but we used to ride out to El Tejar with the cavalry patrol and imagine that we might be fired on at some point in the long ride through unoccupied territory; or else go out to the "front," at Legarto, where a little American force occupied a sun-baked row of freight-cars, surrounded by malarial swamps. From the top of the railroad water-tank, we could look across to the Mexican outposts a mile or so away. It was not very exciting, and ...

— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis

... newspaper was brought to him, after they had nearly finished their meal, the young inventor rapidly scanned the pages. Something on the front sheet, under a heading of big, black type caught his eye. He ...

— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton

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