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Noun front has 10 senses

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"
--₁ is a kind of proximity
front, front end, forepart - the side that is forward or prominent
--₂ is a kind of side, face
Antonyms: rear, backside, back end
--₂ has particulars: forefront, head
Derived forms: verb front₂, verb front₁
front - the side that is seen or that goes first
--₃ is a kind of side
Antonyms: rear, back
--₃ has particulars:
bow, fore, prow, stem; facade, frontage, frontal; face; frontispiece; nose; nose; nose cone, ogive; shirtfront; shopfront, storefront

Derived form: verb front₂
front - a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
--₄ is a kind of sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
battlefront, front, front line - the line along which opposing armies face each other
--₅ is a kind of line
--₅ is a part of
battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field

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"
--₆ is a kind of social group
--₆ has particulars:

Free French, Fighting French; artistic movement, art movement; Boy Scouts; Civil Rights movement; common front; cultural movement; falun gong; political movement; reform movement; religious movement; Zionism, Zionist movement

front - (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
--₇ is a kind of atmospheric phenomenon
--₇ has particulars:
warm front; cold front, polar front; occluded front, occlusion
front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
--₈ is a kind of deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
front - the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
--₉ is a kind of appearance
front - the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage"
--₁₀ is a kind of position, place
Antonyms: back, rear

Derived form: verb front₁

Verb front has 2 senses

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"
--₁ is one way to lie
Antonym: back

Derived forms: noun front₁₀, noun front₂, noun frontage₂
Sample sentence:
His fields front mine at this point
front, breast - confront bodily; "breast the storm"
--₂ is one way to confront, face

Derived forms: noun front₂, noun front₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something