front

Forms

1.The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- There is a garden in front of the house.
- There is a bookstore in front of the department store.
2.The side of a building with the main entrance.
- There is a garden in front of the house.
- There is a bookstore in front of the department store.
3.A field of activity.
- There is a garden in front of the house.
- There is a bookstore in front of the department store.
4.A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.

1.To face, be opposite to.
- She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
- After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.

1.Located at or near the front.
- The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
2.Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
- The English word dress has a front vowel in most dialects.
3.Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
- Contracts are available for every month in the front year but do not extend over a year.
- This means that in absolute terms, the number of transactions that is triggered by external sources is highest for the front contract of corn.
- Buying the security for the earlier (or “front”) month, and owning (and financing) it for the period ending with the latter (or “back” month) settlement date.

Common· #1162

From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”).

Doublet of frons.