Noun: foreground
| Singular | foreground |
| Plural | foregrounds |
Sample Sentences
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Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s. [2006, Mark Chalkley, Hampden-Woodberry:]
Nouns inflected like foreground
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From fore- + ground. Compare Dutch voorgrond (“foreground”), German Vordergrund (“foreground”), Danish forgrund (“foreground”), Swedish förgrund (“foreground”), Norwegian forgrunn (“foreground”), Icelandic forgrunni (“foreground”). See: Dutch Nouns '
voorgrond', German Nouns '
Vordergrund', Swedish Nouns '
förgrund', Icelandic Nouns '
forgrunni'.