front

• (a) relating to or located in the front
  • the front lines
  • the front porch

Nouns

• (n) the side that is forward or prominent forepart, front end,
• (n) the line along which opposing armies face each other battlefront, front line,
• (n) the outward appearance of a person
  • he put up a bold front
• (n) the side that is seen or that goes first
• (n) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity figurehead, front man, nominal head, strawman, straw man,
• (n) a sphere of activity involving effort
  • the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
  • they advertise on many different fronts
• (n) (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
• (n) 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
  presence,
• (n) the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
  • he walked to the front of the stage
• (n) 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
  social movement, movement,

Verbs

• (v) 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
  face, look,
• (v) confront bodily
  • breast the storm
  breast,

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Words of close approximity