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afront

afront adverb: in front; face to face.

Adverb

afront (not comparable)

  1. in front; face to face

Preposition

afront

  1. in front of
    • These four came all afront, and mainly thrust / at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven / points in my target, thus!a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 4, lines 195–197

afront meaning in Urdu

afront in Urdu

بالمقابل, سامنے

Origin of afront

From a- + front.

Questions about afront

What does afront mean?
Afront means in front; face to face.
What is afront in Urdu?
Afront in Urdu is بالمقابل, سامنے. See Afront meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is afront?
Afront can be an adverb or a preposition.

Words near afront in the dictionary

  1. Afromericans
  2. afromontane
  3. afromontoside
  4. afronaut
  5. afronauts
  6. afront
  7. Afropean
  8. Afropeans
  9. Afropessimism
  10. Afropessimist
  11. Afropessimists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: afront (page history and authors); afront (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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