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This page has 66 definitions of front with English translations in 15 languages. Front is a noun, an adjective and verb. Examples of how to use front in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

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English front definition

WOTD – 2 September 2009

Etymology

From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”).

Pronunciation

Noun

front (countable and uncountable, plural fronts)

  2. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
  3. The side of a building with the main entrance.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
  4. A field of activity.
    • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  5. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
    Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
  6. (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
    We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
  7. (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
  8. (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
  9. (military) The direction of the enemy.
  10. (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
  11. (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
  12. (dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
  13. (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
    He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
    You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
  14. (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
  15. The most conspicuous part.
  16. The beginning.
  17. (UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
  18. (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
  19. (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
  20. (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).

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  • (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves): (nautical) bow (of a ship)

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Adjective

front (comparative further front, superlative furthest front)

  1. Located at or near the front.
    The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
  3. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
    The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
  4. Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
    Synonym: prompt
    Antonym: back
    • 1995, Ignacio Mas, Jesús Saá-Requejo, Using Financial Futures in Trading and Risk Management, World Bank Publications, page 11:
      Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.
    • 2000, The Handbook of World Stock, Derivative & Commodity Exchanges:
      Contract months : March, June, September and December[.] Minimum price fluctuation : 0.005 Index Point (1/2 basis point) equivalent to USD 12.50 per tick for the front-year Eurodollar futures […]
    • 2003, Larry Harris, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, OUP USA, →ISBN, page 54:
      The contract that will expire next is called the front contract or front month contract. The other contracts are called the back contracts. In financial and industrial commodities, traders mostly trade only the front month contract.
    • 2010 December 30, Frank J. Fabozzi, Anand K. Bhattacharya, William S. Berliner, Mortgage-Backed Securities: Products, Structuring, and Analytical Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:
      Buying the security for the earlier (or “front”) month, and owning (and financing) it for the period ending with the latter (or “back” month) settlement date.
    • 2016 August 8, Steve Bell, Quantitative Finance For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 113:
      To a speculator, a front month future is attractive. Refer to Figure 6-1 to see that both the open interest and the trading volume of the front-month contract exceeds that of all the other contracts.
    • 2017 October 17, Emmanuel Jurczenko, Factor Investing: From Traditional to Alternative Risk Premia, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 359:
      An alternative definition would estimate the slope using the front futures contract and the contract expiring 1 year after (these contracts are relatively liquid in the commodity markets).
    • 2021 March 22, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 324:
      When the back contract has a higher PVBP than the front contract, fewer back contracts need to be bought or sold than front contracts are sold or bought. The PVBP-neutral roll ratio is simply the ratio of the front and back contracts […]
    • 2021 June 3, Mogens Steffensen, Risks: Feature Papers 2020, MDPI, →ISBN, page 109:
      This means that in absolute terms, the number of transactions that is triggered by external sources is highest for the front contract of corn.
    • 2021 September 28, Todd E. Petzel, Modern Portfolio Management: Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 471:
      Going long the front futures contract and holding it a month in the example now produces a loss of $1 per barrel as the futures market converges to spot. And as long as the market is in a carry, this loss will happen continuously over […]

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Verb

front (third-person singular simple present fronts, present participle fronting, simple past and past participle fronted)

  1. (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
      The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 35:
      The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
    • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 312:
      They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
    • 2010, Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books, Blog, 26 March:
      The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
  2. (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
  3. (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
  4. (transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
    • 2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148:
      Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
  5. (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
    • 2005, Paul Skandera, Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page 48:
      The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
  7. (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
    • 2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics:
      […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
    • 2010, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language:
      A problem facing any syntactic analysis of hyperbaton is that nonconstituent strings are fronted […] In cases where the adjective is fronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled […]
  8. (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
    • 2007, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, page 183:
      Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
  9. (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
    • 2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian:
      Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
  10. (transitive, intransitive) Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
    • 2018, Eric Yarbrough, Transgender Mental Health, page 160:
      Fronting can be understood as a representation of who controls the system, that is, the person to whom you are speaking. Emilia was typically the person fronting her system.
  11. (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
    • 2004, Danielle Steele, Ransom, page 104:
      I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
  12. (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
    Synonyms: put on airs, feign
    • 1993 November 19, Bobby Hill, “Mad Real”, in Washington City Paper‎[1], archived from the original on 5 February 2013:
      So when I tell people where I'm from and check their reactions, I know in my heart I'm just frontin’. Because the way and where I lived then pales when compared to the way and where many youths are living today.
    • 1994, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics and music), “Buddy Holly”, performed by Weezer:
      What's with these homies dissin' my girl? / Why do they gotta front?
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 101:
      No matter how hard she fronted in the coming years, Carmiesha could never forget that she had given birth and had a child in this world. Even when she tried not to remember, she still couldn’t forget.
    • 2008, Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
      Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
    • 2008, Markus Naerheim, The City, page 531:
      You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.
  13. (transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
    • 1992, “So What'cha Want”, performed by The Beastie Boys:
      You think that you can front when revelation comes? / You can't front on that
  14. (transitive) To appear before.
    to front court

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Catalan front definition

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”). Compare Occitan front, French front, Spanish frente.

Pronunciation

Noun

front m (plural fronts)

  1. front
  2. forehead

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Czech front definition

Pronunciation

Noun

front m inan

  1. front (subdivision of the Soviet army)

Declension

Declension of front (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative front fronty
genitive frontu frontů
dative frontu frontům
accusative front fronty
vocative fronte fronty
locative frontu frontech
instrumental frontem fronty

Further reading

  • front in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • front in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch front definition

Etymology

From Old French front (noun), fronter (verb), from Latin frons (“forehead”).

Pronunciation

Noun

front n (plural fronten, diminutive frontje n)

  1. front

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French front definition

Etymology

Inherited from Old French front, from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).

Pronunciation

Noun

front m (plural fronts)

  1. forehead
  2. (military) front, frontline

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Further reading

Friulian front definition

Etymology

From Latin frontem, accusative singular of frōns.

Noun

front m (plural fronts)

  1. (anatomy) forehead

Hungarian front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from German Front, from French fronte, from Latin frons, frontis.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfront]
  • Hyphenation: front
  • Rhymes: -ont

Noun

front (plural frontok)

  1. (military) front (an area where armies are engaged in conflict)
  2. (military) a unit composed of several, normally three, army groups, cf. German Front, [2a]
  3. (meteorology) front (the interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density)
  4. (architecture) front, face (the side of a building with the main entrance)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative front frontok
accusative frontot frontokat
dative frontnak frontoknak
instrumental fronttal frontokkal
causal-final frontért frontokért
translative fronttá frontokká
terminative frontig frontokig
essive-formal frontként frontokként
essive-modal — —
inessive frontban frontokban
superessive fronton frontokon
adessive frontnál frontoknál
illative frontba frontokba
sublative frontra frontokra
allative fronthoz frontokhoz
elative frontból frontokból
delative frontról frontokról
ablative fronttól frontoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fronté frontoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		frontéi frontokéi
Possessive forms of front
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. frontom frontjaim
2nd person sing. frontod frontjaid
3rd person sing. frontja frontjai
1st person plural frontunk frontjaink
2nd person plural frontotok frontjaitok
3rd person plural frontjuk frontjaik

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References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Indonesian front definition

Noun

front (first-person possessive frontku, second-person possessive frontmu, third-person possessive frontnya)

  1. front

Maltese front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fronte.

Pronunciation

Noun

front m (plural frontijiet)

  1. (military) front

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Middle English front definition

Noun

front

  1. Alternative form of frount

Norman front definition

Etymology

From Old French front, from Latin frōns, frontem.

Noun

front m (plural fronts)

  1. (military) front

Norwegian Bokmål front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French front.

Noun

front m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural fronter, definite plural frontene)

  1. front

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Norwegian Nynorsk front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French front.

Noun

front m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural frontar, definite plural frontane)

  1. front

Synonyms

  • framside

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Old French front definition

Etymology

From Latin frōns, frontem.

Noun

front m (oblique plural fronz or frontz, nominative singular fronz or frontz, nominative plural front)

  1. forehead
  2. (military) front

Descendants

Polish front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English front, from Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frons.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frɔnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔnt
  • Syllabification: front

Noun

front m inan

  1. front (facing side)
    Synonym: przód
  2. (military) front (area or line of conflict)
  3. (architecture) face, front (side of a building with the main entrance)

Declension

Declension of front
singular plural
nominative front fronty
genitive frontu frontów
dative frontowi frontom
accusative front fronty
instrumental frontem frontami
locative froncie frontach
vocative froncie fronty

Derived terms

adjective
  • frontowy
nouns
  • frontowiec
  • frontownik

Related terms

adverb
  • frontowo

Further reading

  • front in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • front in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian front definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French front.

Noun

front n (plural fronturi)

  1. (military) front, front line

Declension

Declension of front
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) front frontul (niște) fronturi fronturile
genitive/dative (unui) front frontului (unor) fronturi fronturilor
vocative frontule fronturilor

Serbo-Croatian front definition

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

frȍnt m (Cyrillic spelling фро̏нт)

  1. (military) front

Declension

Declension of front
singular plural
nominative frȍnt fròntovi
genitive fronta frontova
dative frontu frontovima
accusative front frontove
vocative fronte frontovi
locative frontu frontovima
instrumental frontom frontovima

Swedish front definition

Pronunciation

Noun

front c

  1. The front end or side of something.
    Bilen hade fått en ful buckla på fronten.
    "There was an ugly bump on the front of the car."
  2. front - the area were two armies are fighting each other.
    På västfronten intet nytt (All Quiet on the Western Front, book by Erich Maria Remarque)
  3. front - area were hot and cold air meet
  4. front - one aspect of a larger undertaking which is temporarily seen as a separate undertaking in order to evaluate its progress in relationship to the whole.

Declension

Declension of front 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative front fronten fronter fronterna
Genitive fronts frontens fronters fronternas

Derived terms

  • västfront
  • östfront
  • kallfront
  • varmfront

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