cold front

1. 1.

   the front of an advancing mass of colder air

   Synonymspolar front

   Broaderfront

   Narrowersquall line

Questions about cold front

What does cold front mean?

cold front means "the front of an advancing mass of colder air".

What is another word for cold front?

Close synonyms include polar front. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cold front a common word?

cold front is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.