1. the foremost part or surface of anything.
2. the part or side of anything that faces forward: the front of a jacket.
3. the part or side of anything, as a building, that seems to look out or to be directed forward: He sat in the front of the restaurant.
4. any side or face, as of a building.
5. a façade, considered with respect to its architectural treatment or material: a cast-iron front.
6. a property line along a street or the like: a fifty-foot front.
7. a place or position directly before anything: We decided to plant trees in the front.
8. a position of leadership in a particular endeavor or field: She rose to the front of her profession.
9. Military.
• the foremost line or part of an army.
• a line of battle.
• the place where combat operations are carried on.
10. an area of activity, conflict, or competition: news from the business front.
11. land facing a road, river, etc.
12. a promenade along a seashore.
13. a distinguished person listed as an official of an organization, for the sake of prestige, and who is usually inactive.
14. a person or thing that serves as a cover or disguise for some other activity, especially one of a secret, disreputable, or illegal nature; a blind: The store was a front for foreign agents.
15. outward impression of rank, position, or wealth.
16. bearing or demeanor in confronting anything: a calm front.
17. haughtiness; self-importance: That clerk has the most outrageous front.
18. the forehead, or the entire face: the statue's gracefully chiseled front.
19. a coalition or movement to achieve a particular end, usually political: the people's front.
20. something attached or worn at the breast, as a shirt front or a dickey: to spill gravy down one's front.
21. an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses.
22. Theater.
• the auditorium.
• the business offices of a theater.
• the front of the stage; downstage.

23. of or relating to the front.
24. situated in or at the front: front seats.
25. (of a speech sound) articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of lay.

26. to have the front toward; face: Our house fronts the lake.
27. to meet face to face; confront.
28. to face in opposition, hostility, or defiance.
29. to furnish or supply a front to: to front a building with sandstone.
30. to serve as a front to: A long, sloping lawn fronted their house.
31. to provide an introduction to; introduce: a recorded message that is fronted with a singing commercial.
32. to lead (a jazz or dance band).
33. to articulate (a speech sound) at a position farther front in the mouth.
34. to move (a constituent) to the beginning of a clause or sentence.

35. to have or turn the front in some specified direction: Our house fronts on the lake.
36. to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature: The shop fronts for a narcotics ring.

37. (used to call or command someone to come, look, etc., to the front, as in an order to troops on parade or in calling a hotel bellboy to the front desk): Front and center, on the double!

38. in a forward place or position: Sit down, you in front!
39. in front of,
• ahead of: to walk in front of a moving crowd.
• outside the entrance of: to wait in front of a house.
• in the presence of: to behave badly in front of company.
40. out front,
• outside the entrance: He's waiting out front.
• ahead of competitors: This advertising campaign ought to put our business way out front.
• in the audience or auditorium.
• candidly; frankly: Say what you mean out front.
41. up front, Informal.
• in advance; before anything else: You'll have to make a payment of $5,000 up front.
• frank; open; direct: I want you to be up front with me.

1. frontispiece.

1. that part or side that is forward, prominent, or most often seen or used
2. a position or place directly before or ahead
3. the beginning, opening, or first part
4. the position of leadership; forefront; vanguard
5. land bordering a lake, street, etc
6. land along a seashore or large lake, esp a promenade
7. military
• the total area in which opposing armies face each other
• the lateral space in which a military unit or formation is operating
• the direction in which troops are facing when in a formed line
8. the dividing line or plane between two air masses or water masses of different origins and having different characteristics
9. outward aspect or bearing, as when dealing with a situation
10. assurance, overconfidence, or effrontery
11. a business or other activity serving as a respectable cover for another, usually criminal, organization
12. a nominal leader of an organization, etc, who lacks real power or authority; figurehead
13. outward appearance of rank or wealth
14. a particular field of activity involving some kind of struggle
15. a group of people with a common goal
16. a false shirt front; a dicky
17. the forehead or the face

18. of, at, or in the front
19. of, relating to, or denoting a vowel articulated with the blade of the tongue brought forward and raised towards the hard palate, as for the sound of ee in English see or a in English hat
20. at an advantage, outclassing and outmanoeuvring one's opponents

21. to be opposite (to); face (onto)
22. to be a front of or for
23. to appear as a presenter in (a television show)
24. to be the lead singer or player in (a band)
25. to confront, esp in hostility or opposition
26. to supply a front for
27. to appear (at)

1. frontispiece

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