Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word front. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in front.
Definitions and meaning of front
front
Etymology
From Middle Englishfront, frunt, frount, from Old Frenchfront, frunt, from Latinfrōns, frontem(“forehead”). Doublet of frons.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /fɹʌnt/
Rhymes: -ʌnt
Noun
front (countable and uncountable, pluralfronts)
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
The side of a building with the main entrance.
A field of activity.
A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
(military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
(military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
(military) The direction of the enemy.
(military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
(historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
(dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
(informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
(historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
The most conspicuous part.
The beginning.
(UK) A seafront or coastal promenade.
(obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
(slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
(slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
Synonyms
fore
Antonyms
back
rear
Hyponyms
(The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves):(nautical) bow (of a ship)
Derived terms
Related terms
affront
effrontery
Descendants
Tok Pisin: fran
→ Japanese: フロント(furonto)
→ Korean: 프런트(peureonteu)
Translations
Adjective
front (comparativefurther front, superlativefurthest front)
Located at or near the front.
The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
(comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calendar month or year after the current one).
Synonym:prompt
Antonym:back
Synonyms
(located near the front):first, lead, fore
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "located near the front"):back, last, rear
(antonym(s) of "phonetics"):back
Translations
Verb
front (third-person singular simple presentfronts, present participlefronting, simple past and past participlefronted)
(intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
2010, Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books, Blog, 26 March:
The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
(transitive) To face, be opposite to.
(transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
(transitive) To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
(phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
(linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
(intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
(transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
(transitive, intransitive) Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
(transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
(intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
Synonyms:put on airs, feign
2008, Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
(transitive, slang) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
(transitive) To appear before.
Translations
See also
front vowel
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latinfrontem, from Proto-Indo-European*bʰron-t-, from *bʰren-(“project”). Compare Occitanfront, Frenchfront, Spanishfrente.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central)[ˈfɾon]
IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian)[ˈfɾont]
Noun
frontm (pluralfronts)
front
forehead
Derived terms
fer front
Related terms
afrontar
fronter
Further reading
“front” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“front”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“front” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“front” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈfront]
Noun
frontm inan
front(subdivision of the Soviet army)
Declension
Further reading
front in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
front in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
English: front (see there for further descendants)
Scots: front
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; possibly borrowed from GermanFront, Frenchfront, or Englishfront, ultimately from Latinfrōns. First attested in 1656–1688. Compare Silesianfrōnt.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /frɔnt/
(Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈfrɔnt/
Rhymes: -ɔnt
Syllabification: front
Noun
frontm inan (related adjectivefrontowy)
(military, law enforcement)front(foremost part of a line of soldiers or policemen)
front(side of a building with the main entrance)
(military)front(area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact)
(military)front(military unit composed of multiple armies that sits in the line of contact)
(literary)front(activity against someone else's activity)
(literary)front(group carrying out activity against someone else's activity)
(meteorology)front(interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation)
front(formation of planes during a group flight)
front(area of activity)
(obsolete, colloquial) house facing a street
(Middle Polish)front(foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves)
Synonym:przód
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
→ Kashubian: front
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), front is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 8 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 29 times in essays, 8 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 74 times, making it the 866th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
front in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
front in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “front”, in Słownik języka polskiego[5]
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “front”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[6]
J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “front”, in Słownik języka polskiego[7] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 775
front in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “front 1-2”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchfront.
Noun
frontn (pluralfronturi)
(military)front, front line
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
frònta(Croatia)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /frônt/
Noun
frȍntm (Cyrillic spellingфро̏нт)
(military)front
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
frontc
The front end or side of something.
front - the area were two armies are fighting each other.
På västfronten intet nytt (All Quiet on the Western Front, book by Erich Maria Remarque)
front - area were hot and cold air meet
front - one aspect of a larger undertaking which is temporarily seen as a separate undertaking in order to evaluate its progress in relationship to the whole.