<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the foremost part or surface of anything</li><li>the part or side of anything that faces forward: the front of a jacket</li><li>the part or side of anything, as a building, that seems to look out or to be directed forward: He sat in the front of the restaurant</li><li>any side or face, as of a building</li><li>a façade, considered with respect to its architectural treatment or material: a cast-iron front</li><li>a property line along a street or the like: a fifty-foot front</li><li>a place or position directly before anything: We decided to plant trees in the front</li><li>a position of leadership in a particular endeavor or field: She rose to the front of her profession</li><li>Military: the foremost line or part of an army</li><li>a line of battle</li><li>the place where combat operations are carried on</li><li>an area of activity, conflict, or competition: news from the business front</li><li>land facing a road, river, etc.</li><li>British: a promenade along a seashore</li><li>Informal: a distinguished person listed as an official of an organization, for the sake of prestige, and who is usually inactive</li><li>a person or thing that serves as a cover or disguise for some other activity, especially one of a secret, disreputable, or illegal nature; a blind: The store was a front for foreign agents</li><li>outward impression of rank, position, or wealth</li><li>bearing or demeanor in confronting anything: a calm front</li><li>haughtiness; self-importance: That clerk has the most outrageous front</li><li>the forehead, or the entire face: the statue's gracefully chiseled front</li><li>a coalition or movement to achieve a particular end, usually political: the people's front</li><li>something attached or worn at the breast, as a shirt front or a dickey: to spill gravy down one's front</li><li>Meteorology: an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses</li><li>Theater: the auditorium</li><li>the business offices of a theater</li><li>the front of the stage; downstage</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to the front</li><li>situated in or at the front: front seats</li><li>Phonetics: (of a speech sound) articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of "lay"</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to have the front toward; face: Our house fronts the lake</li><li>to meet face to face; confront</li><li>to face in opposition, hostility, or defiance</li><li>to furnish or supply a front to: to front a building with sandstone</li><li>to serve as a front to: A long, sloping lawn fronted their house</li><li>Informal: to provide an introduction to; introduce: a recorded message that is fronted with a singing commercial</li><li>to lead (a jazz or dance band)</li><li>Phonetics: to articulate (a speech sound) at a position farther front in the mouth</li><li>Linguistics: to move (a constituent) to the beginning of a clause or sentence</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to have or turn the front in some specified direction: Our house fronts on the lake</li><li>to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature: The shop fronts for a narcotics ring</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection</strong></p><ul><li>(used to call or command someone to come, look, etc., to the front, as in an order to troops on parade or in calling a hotel bellboy to the front desk): Front and center, on the double!</li></ul>