Meaning
The side of something that people see first, or the part that faces forward.
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Word origin
From Latin frons, frontis, meaning forehead, which came to mean the front of anything.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- frons
- English cognates
- frontier, confront
Grammar
Examples
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"Front" is the side you see from the road.
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"In front of" tells you where something is.
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Here "front" is the part nearest the teacher.
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Grammar articles
(23)English adjective order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour
Articles in English: a, an, the and the zero article
Comparatives and superlatives in English: rules and chart
Countable and uncountable nouns in English: rules and list
This, that, these and those in English: chart and examples
Do and does in English: questions and negatives
-ed endings in English: spelling and the three sounds
Emphasis in English: emphatic do, my own and the very
Gradable and ungradable adjectives in English, with examples
Inversion and subject-verb-object word order in English
Modals of deduction in English: must, might, could, can't
Numbers in English: how to say, write and spell them
Passive voice in English: rules, examples and when to use it
Past perfect in English: had + past participle, examples
Prepositions in English: in, on, at and more, with examples
Present continuous in English: am/is/are + -ing, examples
Present simple in English: rules, -s ending and examples
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many, few, little
The subjunctive in English: if I were you, I suggest he go
To be in English: am, is and are (chart and examples)
Used to, would and be used to in English: past habits
I wish and if only in English: grammar rules and examples
Prefixes in English: un-, in-, im-, ir-, dis-, mis- rules
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 8: front, steal, beat and 7 more words.