front – English noun declension

English noun forms of front

Noun: front
Singularfront
Pluralfronts

Sample Sentences

  • I'll go out the front, and you go out the back.
  • Flowering plants cascaded down the fronts of the buildings.
  • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training. [2012 January 26, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:]
  • Near-synonyms: frontperson, frontman, front man
  • Officially it's a dry-cleaning shop, but everyone knows it's a front for the mafia.
  • We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.
  • […] there was one bare breast sticking out, the tip of it disappearing into Enid's father's mouth. She had told her mother about this in perfect certainty that she had seen it. She said, "One of her fronts was stuck in Daddy's mouth." [1998, Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman, page 74:]
  • She thought—imagined, really—that her, well, that her fronts were too big. She grew up, you see, in the flapper era, when it was fashionable for women to have very flat fronts. [2015, Stephen Birmingham, The Wrong Kind of Money:]
  • Turning their Backs... ON FRONTS.
  • CONVIVIAL WAITRESS: D... Don't you want to ogle me?
  • SICKO MILLENNIAL: No... I hate breasts! [2019 October 15, Ward Sutton as Stan Kelly, “Wings And A Pair”, in The Onion:]
  • He says he likes hip-hop, but I think it's just a front.
  • You don't need to put on a front. Just be yourself.
  • with smiling fronts encountering [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:]
  • The inhabitants showed a bold front. [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front [1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “(please specify either |book=1 to 9 or the page)”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
  • the very head and front of my offending [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • summer's front [1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 102”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:]
  • So the faulty bridge was moved to the front of the song, creating in the process one of the most striking opening moments in Beatles music. [2012, Kenneth Womack, Todd F. Davis, Reading the Beatles, page 43:]
  • Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. [1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:]
  • Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. [c. 1700, Matthew Prior, Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir Godfrey Kneller's:]
  • I'm saying, man, them fronts? That car? Who is you, Chiron? [2016, 1:41:25, in Barry Jenkins, director, Moonlight, spoken by Kevin (André Holland):]

Etymology

From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frōns, frontem (“forehead”). Doublet of frons. See: Middle English Nouns 'front', Latin Nouns 'frōns'.

Verbs referencing "front"

Polish Nouns front, English Nouns affront.