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Synonyms for front
Synonyms for front: movement and presence. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for front
- movementnoun, in the sense "a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals"
- presencenoun, in the sense "the immediate proximity of someone or something"
All two are filed under front's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
He led the national liberation front.
front in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The teachers formed a front to demand better funding for rural schools.
- Local shopkeepers joined a front opposing the new shopping mall development.
How it behaves: Front usually appears as the object of verbs like form, join, or lead, often followed by against or for plus the cause, in political or journalistic register.
The true synonym
movement
Same sentence, swapped: He led the national liberation movement.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where front stands in the sentence above.
- presence
- figurehead
- force
the immediate proximity of someone or something
He was well behaved in front of company.
front in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The waiter dropped the tray right in front of the restaurant owner.
- She signed the contract in front of two witnesses at the notary's office.
How it behaves: In this sense front almost always occurs inside the fixed phrase "in front of" followed by a noun phrase naming the person or group present, rather than standing alone as a subject.
The true synonym
presence
Same sentence, swapped: He was well behaved in presence of company.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- movement
- figurehead
- line
The opposite, in this sense
back reverses front as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of front takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- back
Where front turns up in the game
front is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in nine other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 9 puzzles where front is the trap
- lotnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is set, in the sense "an unofficial association of people or groups", and front is one of the three tiles that lose.
- matchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pit, in the sense "set into opposition or rivalry", and front is on the board beside it.
- movementnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is motion, in the sense "an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object", and front is one of the three tiles that lose.
- outsideadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is international, in the sense "from or between other countries", and front is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play front
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Closest first: other groups and collections words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
front is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 9. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.