Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The most conspicuous part.
- 6noun
That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- 7noun
The beginning.
- 8adjective
Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.
- 9transitive verb
To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
- 10transitive verb
To appear before; to meet.
- 11transitive verb
To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.
- 12transitive verb
To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.
- 13transitive verb
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
- 14transitive verb
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
- 15noun
the side that is seen or that goes first
- 16noun
the outward appearance of a person
"he put up a bold front"
- 17noun
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"
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- 18noun
the side that is forward or prominent
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- 19noun
the line along which opposing armies face each other
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- 20noun
the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
"he walked to the front of the stage"
- 21noun
the immediate proximity of someone or something
"she blushed in his presence"
"he sensed the presence of danger"
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- 22noun
a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
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- 23noun
(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
- 24noun
a sphere of activity involving effort
"the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"
"they advertise on many different fronts"
- 25verb
confront bodily
"breast the storm"
Synonyms
- 26verb
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"
- 27adjective
relating to or located in the front
"the front lines"
"the front porch"
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