home front

1. 1.

   the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war

   Broaderpopulation

Questions about home front

What does home front mean?

home front means "the civilian population (and their activities) of a country at war".

Is home front a common word?

home 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.