front

Εννοια (English)

Noun

1. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
2. The side of a building with the main entrance.
3. A field of activity.
4. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
5. 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.
6. An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
7. The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
8. The direction of the enemy.
9. When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
10. A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
11. Cheek; boldness; impudence.
12. (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
13. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
14. The most conspicuous part.
15. The beginning.
16. A seafront or coastal promenade.
17. (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
18. (slang) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
19. (slang) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).

Adj

1. Located at or near the front.
2. 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).
3. 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).

Verb

1. To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
2. To face, be opposite to.
3. To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
4. To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
5. To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
6. To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
7. (slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
8. To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
9. Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
10. (colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
11. (slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
12. (slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
13. To appear before.
14. (slang) To act cocky, disrespectful and aggressive; to confront (someone).

Synonyms

face

fore

facade

frontage

forepart

in front of

in front

frontal

forehead

head

before

forward

first

1st

battlefront

anterior

front line

foremost

façade

look

confront

main

ahead

head-on

front part

previous

front-line

advance

forefront

nominal head

face down

breast

front man

beginning

early

presence

go in front

social movement

strawman

straw man

front side

future

cope

cover

front end

take the lead

this side

alliance

lead

fore part

bow

🙇

facing

line

right side

brow

movement

battle-front

figurehead

frontal surface

preceding

battlefield

prow

former

progress

proscenium

red herring

screen

shore

slide

spearhead

spread

stand up to

superficies

theatre of war

throw

look out on

uprightness

vamp

weather

window dressing

battle front

be in front

come up against

forequarter

out front

shirt-front

turn towards

magic cloak of invisibility

first line

helmet front

sign out in front

behaviour

be first

figure-head

Front

battle line

fighting front

first position

army group

fore-part

cloth covering

frontmost

front face

frontal area

costal margin

front surface

front organization

entering edge

tool face

knife face

lip surface

advancing edge

anterior border

anterior part

anterior surface

at the front

bank

🏦

barnyard

battleground

beard

belly

blanket

blind

bluff

boundary

carpet

chest

chief

cloak

coalition

coast

covering

cranium

curtain

dare

dial

direct

diversion

drapery

east

effrontery

encounter

entrance

envisage

face side

facial

fake

fast

feint

field

fighting line

foreground

frontally

frontlet

frontline

half

hanging

headmost

honesty

impudence

in

initial

in the front

leading

leading edge

line-up

mantle

obverse

oppose

outward

palatalize

plant

🌱

positive

precede

pro

proceed

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/fɹʌnt/

Ετυμολογία (English)

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά: front

In summary

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

Προτάσεις

An older man is walking along the street in front of a woman .

Ένας ηλικιωμένος άνδρας περπατάει κατά μήκος του δρόμου μπροστά σε μια γυναίκα.

A child is looking through a pretend telescope on playground equipment in front of a blue sky .

Ένα παιδί κοιτάζει μέσα από ένα τηλεσκόπιο προσποιείται στον εξοπλισμό παιδικής χαράς μπροστά από έναν γαλάζιο ουρανό.