polar front

1. 1.

   the front of an advancing mass of colder air

   Synonymscold front

   Broaderfront

   Narrowersquall line

Questions about polar front

What does polar front mean?

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

What is another word for polar front?

Close synonyms include cold 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 polar front a common word?

polar 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.