Etymology

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Today it means: The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves. Full definition →

Middle English frount ← Old French front ← Latin frontem
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  1. Latinfrontem
  2. Old Frenchfront
  3. Middle Englishfrount
  4. English todayfront

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.