ENGLISH: front - CREOLE: devan



Overview of noun front



The noun front has 10 senses (first 10 from tagged texts)



1. (599) presence, front -- (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")

2. (191) front, front end, forepart -- (the side that is forward or prominent)

3. (95) front -- (the side that is seen or that goes first)

4. (90) front -- (a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts")

5. (61) battlefront, front, front line -- (the line along which opposing armies face each other)

6. (38) movement, social movement, front -- (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")

7. (16) front -- ((meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses)

8. (13) front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman -- (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)

9. (13) front -- (the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front")

10. (10) front -- (the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage")



Overview of verb front



The verb front has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (2) front, look, face -- (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")

2. (2) front, breast -- (confront bodily; "breast the storm")



Overview of adj front



The adj front has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (17) front -- (relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch")

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