front

Adjective

• relating to or located in the front
  • the front lines
    
  • the front porch
    

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
    
  • he led the national liberation front
    

• the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
  • he walked to the front of the stage
    

• the immediate proximity of someone or something
  • she blushed in his presence
    
  • he sensed the presence of danger
    
  • he was well behaved in front of company
    

• (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses

• a sphere of activity involving effort
  • the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
    
  • they advertise on many different fronts
    

• a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

• the side that is seen or that goes first

• the outward appearance of a person
  • he put up a bold front
    

• the line along which opposing armies face each other

• the side that is forward or prominent

Verb

• confront bodily
  • breast the storm
    

• 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
    
  • The building faces the park
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  front(a) , movement , social movement , presence , front man , figurehead , nominal head , straw man , strawman , battlefront , front line , front end , forepart , breast , look , face
• Antonyms: 
  back(a) , back , rear , backside , back end