IN FRONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in front mean? 

• IN FRONT (adverb)
  The adverb IN FRONT has 1 sense:

1. at or in the front

  Familiarity information: IN FRONT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN FRONT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or in the front

Synonyms:

ahead; before; in front

Context example:

with the cross of Jesus marching on before

 Context examples 

Right in front of the house, upon the left-hand side of the drive, there stood a patriarch among oaks, one of the most magnificent trees that I have ever seen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The staid and sober Oakland folk who sat upon the car scarcely noted the young fellow and the girl who ran for it and found a seat in front on the outside.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As we drove up, we found the railings in front of the house lined by a curious crowd.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kepler detects a change in brightness when a planet passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the telescope.

(Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor, NASA)

The ancient KBO, which is more than four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, passed in front of a star on July 17, 2017.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

The orbit is seen almost edge-on from Earth and as the exoplanet passes in front of the star once per orbit it blocks a little of its light every 25 days.

(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Prostate cancer, this buildup of abnormal cells in a man’s prostate — a gland below the bladder and in front of the rectum — often has no early symptoms and usually grows very slowly.

(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)

Since moons outside our solar system – known as exomoons – cannot be imaged directly, their presence is inferred when they pass in front of a star, momentarily dimming its light.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)