n.

1. the immediate proximity of someone or something;
   presence
   
   • she blushed in his presence
   • he sensed the presence of danger
   • he was well behaved in front of company
2. the side that is forward or prominent;
   front end, forepart
3. the side that is seen or that goes first
4. a sphere of activity involving effort
   
   • the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front
   • they advertise on many different fronts
5. the line along which opposing armies face each other;
   battlefront, front line
6. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals;
   movement, social movement
   
   • he was a charter member of the movement
   • politicians have to respect a mass movement
   • he led the national liberation front
7. (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses
8. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity;
   front man, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman
9. the outward appearance of a person
   
   • he put up a bold front
10. the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer
    
    • he walked to the front of the stage

v.

1. be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to;
   look, face
   
   • The house looks north
   • My backyard look onto the pond
   • The building faces the park
2. confront bodily;
   breast
   
   • breast the storm

adj.

1. relating to or located in the front;
   front(a)
   
   • the front lines
   • the front porch