n. The forehead; in technical use, the frons.n. The forehead or face as expressive of character, temper, or disposition; characteristic facial appearance.n. Hence Manner of facing or opposing; attitude or bearing when confronted with anything, as in meeting a foe, a threatened danger, or an accuser: as, to put on a bold front; to await the enemy with a calm front. Sometimes used in the sense of cool assurance or impudence.n. The part or side of anything which seems to look out or to be directed forward; the most forward part or surface: as, the front of a house; the front of an army.n. Position or place directly ahead, or before the face or that part of anything which is regarded as the face; position in or toward that part to which one's view or course is directed: used chiefly in the phrases in front and in front of: as, right in front of them stood a lion.n. Specifically, in a theater and the like— The part nearest the stage or platform: as, to occupy seats in front.n. The part before the actors or speakers; the auditorium: as, the stage manager was in front (that is, not on the stage, but in the auditorium).n. A sort of half-wig worn by women with a cap or bonnet, to cover only the front part of the head: distinctively called a false front.n. Same as shirt-front and dicky, 3.n. One of the surfaces of a diatom frustule marked by the line of juncture of the two valves, as distinguished from the side, which is the surface formed of a single valve.n. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 .Relating to the front or face; frontal.Having a position in the front; foremost: as, the front steps.To meet face to face; come into the presence of; confront.To oppose face to face; oppose directly; encounter.To stand in front of, or opposed or opposite to, or over against; face.To supply with a front; furnish or adorn in front: as, to front a house with granite.To have the face or front toward some point of the compass or some object; be in a confronting or opposed position.To stand foremost.To stand or go in opposition; go counter.n. In theat, language: That part of a theater which, from the actor's point of view, lies in front of the curtain; the auditorium or audience part; hence, the audience itself: as, to be in the front.n. Everybody engaged to work before the curtain.n. Milit., the entire system of defenses constructed along one side of the polygon inclosing the site to be fortified: as, a bastion or polygonal front.n. The forehead-piece of a bridle, generally of leather with metal trimmings.n. The exterior surface of a lock mortised into a door; the portion of a lock that is visible and through which the bolt, passes; in a rim-lock, the end facing the doorframe.n. In entomology, practically the forehead; the part of the face between the eyes and between the vertex and the clypeus.In phonology, modified in utterance by the configuration of the central portion of the front or upper side of the tongue.In phonology, to pronounce with the front of the tongue, or as a ‘front’ sound. See front, II. adjective 3.
