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Foreground

/fˈɔˌrɡraʊnd/
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(noun) The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.

The couch is in the foreground next to the table.
The man in the background is my grandfather, and my father is in the foreground.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The photographer focused on the flowers in the ____, leaving the distant mountains slightly blurred.

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