Front Meaning
/fɹʌnt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
nounThe side of a building with the main entrance.
Sentence Examples
They are waiting for you in front of the door.
Life lies in front of you.
The front of the building was covered with ivy.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The bright ____ of the building had large windows facing south.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The garden at the ____ of the house was filled with vibrant flowers and neatly trimmed green hedges.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
"Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training."
— 2012 January 26, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
"[…] there was one bare breast sticking out, the tip of it disappearing into Enid's father's mouth. She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it. She said, "One of her fronts was stuck in Daddy's mouth.""
— 1998, Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman, page 74:
"She thought—imagined, really—that her, well, that her fronts were too big. She grew up, you see, in the flapper era, when it was fashionable for women to have very flat fronts."
— 2015, Stephen Birmingham, The Wrong Kind of Money:
"Turning their Backs... ON FRONTS.
CONVIVIAL WAITRESS: D... Don't you want to ogle me?
SICKO MILLENNIAL: No... I hate breasts!"
— 2019 October 15, Ward Sutton as Stan Kelly, “Wings And A Pair”, in The Onion:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The bright ____ of the building had large windows facing south.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The garden at the ____ of the house was filled with vibrant flowers and neatly trimmed green hedges.