Front

Front may refer to:

as common noun
  • Front (military), area where armies are engaged in conflict
    • Front (Russian Empire), Front (Soviet Army), types of military formations
  • Front (sociology), term used by Goffman
  • Front organization
  • Ice front of a glacier
  • Front of a coin (see Obverse and reverse)
  • Grill (jewelry), also known as "front", jewelry for teeth
  • Weather front
  • Front (Oceanography), a place where two water masses come together in the ocean
as proper noun
  • The Front, 1976 film
  • The Front, now part of the Delaware Park-Front Park System, in Buffalo, New York, United States
  • The Front (band), an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • The Front (Canadian band), a Canadian studio band from the 1980s
  • "The Front" (The Simpsons episode)
  • Front (magazine), British men's magazine
  • Front, Piedmont, Italian municipality
  • Front, California, former name of Brown, California
  • Front Illustrated Paper, Yugoslav Peoples Army publication
as adjective
  • Front and back, phonetics terms
  • Front vowel

Famous quotes containing the word front:

    “After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)

    “That big gun in your hand makes you look grown up—you think! I’ll bet you spend hours posing in front of a mirror holding it, trying to look tough!... You scum!”
    —Richard Brooks (1912–1992)

    “Here, in front of the summer hotel
    the beach waits like an altar.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)