FRONT END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does front end mean? 

• FRONT END (noun)
  The noun FRONT END has 1 sense:

1. the side that is forward or prominent

  Familiarity information: FRONT END used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONT END (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The side that is forward or prominent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

forepart; front; front end

Hypernyms ("front end" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front end"):

forefront; head (the part in the front or nearest the viewer)

 Context examples 

Every rope was brought to a ring at the front end of the sled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The front end of the sled was turned up, like a scroll, in order to force down and under the bore of soft snow that surged like a wave before it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)