front
1. the side that is forward or prominent (Freq. 20)
• Syn:
front end, forepart
• Ant:
rear
• Derivationally related forms:
frontal
• Hypernyms:
side, face
• Hyponyms:
forefront, head
2. the line along which opposing armies face each other (Freq. 15)
• Syn:
battlefront, front line
• Derivationally related forms:
frontal
• Hypernyms:
line
• Part Holonyms:
battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field
3. the outward appearance of a person (Freq. 2)
- he put up a bold front
• Hypernyms:
appearance
4. the side that is seen or that goes first (Freq. 2)
• Ant:
rear
• Derivationally related forms:
frontal
• Hypernyms:
side
• Hyponyms:
bow, fore, prow, stem, facade,
frontage, frontal, face, frontispiece, nose, nose cone,
ogive, shirtfront, shopfront, storefront
5. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
• Hypernyms:
deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
6. a sphere of activity involving effort
- the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
- they advertise on many different fronts
• Hypernyms:
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
7. (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
• Derivationally related forms:
frontal
• Topics:
meteorology
• Hypernyms:
atmospheric phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
warm front, cold front, polar front, occluded front, occlusion
8. the immediate proximity of someone or something
- she blushed in his presence
- he sensed the presence of danger
- he was well behaved in front of company
• Syn:
presence
• Derivationally related forms:
present (for: presence)
• Hypernyms:
proximity
9. the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
- he walked to the front of the stage
• Ant:
back
• Derivationally related forms:
frontal
• Hypernyms:
position, place
10. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- he was a charter member of the movement
- politicians have to respect a mass movement
- he led the national liberation front
• Syn:
movement, social movement
• Hypernyms:
social group
• Hyponyms:
Free French, Fighting French, artistic movement, art movement, Boy Scouts,
Civil Rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, oecumenism, falun gong,
political movement, reform movement, religious movement, Zionism, Zionist movement
1. confront bodily (Freq. 2)
- breast the storm
• Syn:
breast
• Hypernyms:
confront, face
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point;
be opposite to (Freq. 2)
- The house looks north
- My backyard look onto the pond
- The building faces the park
• Syn:
look, face
• Ant:
back
• Derivationally related forms:
frontage
• Hypernyms:
lie
• Hyponyms:
confront
• Verb Group:
face
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- His fields front mine at this point
relating to or located in the front (Freq. 17)
- the front lines
- the front porch
• Ant:
back
• Similar to:
advance, advanced, in advance, foremost, frontmost,
frontal, head-on
• See Also:
anterior, first, fore
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