in front

1. 1.

   at or in the front

   “I see the lights of a town ahead”

   “the road ahead is foggy”

   “staring straight ahead”

   “we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front”

   “with the cross of Jesus marching on before”

   Synonymsaheadbefore

Questions about in front

What does in front mean?

in front means "at or in the front".

What is another word for in front?

Close synonyms include ahead, before. 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 in front a common word?

in front is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.