Main entry: front
Definition: the side that is seen or that goes first
Main entry: front
Definition: the outward appearance of a person
Usage: he put up a bold front
Main entry: social movement, movement, front
Definition: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
Usage: he was a charter member of the movement; politicians have to respect a mass movement; he led the national liberation front
Main entry: front, front end, forepart
Definition: the side that is forward or prominent
Main entry: front, front line, battlefront
Definition: the line along which opposing armies face each other
Main entry: front
Definition: the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
Usage: he walked to the front of the stage
Definition: the immediate proximity of someone or something
Usage: she blushed in his presence; he sensed the presence of danger; he was well behaved in front of company
Main entry: front, front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
Definition: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
Main entry: front
Definition: (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
Main entry: front
Definition: a sphere of activity involving effort
Usage: the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front; they advertise on many different fronts
Definition: confront bodily
Usage: breast the storm
Definition: be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
Usage: The house looks north; My backyard look onto the pond; The building faces the park
Main entry: front
Definition: relating to or located in the front
Usage: the front lines; the front porch