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face to face is an adverb meaning "involving close contact; confronting each other". It carries 3 recorded senses.
involving close contact; confronting each other
“the boy and the policeman suddenly came face-to-face at the corner”
“they spoke face to face”
directly facing each other
“the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table”
“lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street”
“they sat opposite at the table”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for face to face come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.