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say it: fruhnt
front is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "the side that is forward or prominent". It carries 13 recorded senses.
the side that is seen or that goes first
a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
a sphere of activity involving effort
“the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front”
“they advertise on many different fronts”
(meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
meteorology
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for front come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.