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front burners

front burners is the plural of front burner.

Meaning of front burner

Noun

front burner (plural front burners)

  1. (figuratively) A state of high priority.
    • At a moment in American history when homosexuality was already a front-burner issue, Kinsey's report added fuel to the fire.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 11
    Antonyms:
    back burner

Questions about front burners

What is front burners the plural of?
Front burners is the plural of front burner.

Words near front burners in the dictionary

  1. front bum
  2. front bumper
  3. front bumpers
  4. front bums
  5. front burner
  6. front burners
  7. front butt
  8. front butts
  9. front companies
  10. front company
  11. front controller pattern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: front burners (page history and authors); front burner (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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