front

front is a 5-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. The most conspicuous part.
6. noun. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
7. noun. The beginning.
8. adjective. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
9. transitive verb. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
10. transitive verb. To appear before; to meet.
11. transitive verb. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
12. transitive verb. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
13. transitive verb. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
14. transitive verb. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
15. noun. the side that is seen or that goes first
16. noun. the outward appearance of a person

    "he put up a bold front"

17. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: movement

18. noun. the side that is forward or prominent

    Synonyms: forepart

19. noun. the line along which opposing armies face each other

    Synonyms: battlefront

20. noun. the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer

    "he walked to the front of the stage"

21. noun. the immediate proximity of someone or something

    "she blushed in his presence"

    "he sensed the presence of danger"

    Synonyms: presence

22. noun. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

    Synonyms: figurehead, strawman

23. noun. (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
24. noun. a sphere of activity involving effort

    "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"

    "they advertise on many different fronts"

25. verb. confront bodily

    "breast the storm"

    Synonyms: breast

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

    "The house looks north"

    "My backyard look onto the pond"

    Synonyms: face, look

27. adjective. relating to or located in the front

    "the front lines"

    "the front porch"

Synonyms

movement, forepart, battlefront, presence, figurehead, strawman, breast, face, look

Common word forms

fronts, frontal, fronted, fronter, frontes, frontest, fronting, frontless

Words from these letters

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