in front of
in front of preposition: at or near the front part of (something).
Preposition
in front of
- At or near the front part of (something).
- There’s a bus stop in front of the faculty entrance, right on the same side of the road.
- I jerked the little girl back from in front of a speeding car just in time.
- Synonyms:
- before
- In the presence of, in view of (someone).
- Don't fight in front of the children!
- What happened to me was, right in front of my eyes- I was there with my brother- and right in front of my eyes, they, a team of monkeys came by to this poor guy that sells fruit for a living- and, I don't know, probably that was all his kids were gonna eat from the, you know, the money he had to...2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Sareen, 11:30 from the start, in Penn Radio
- Located before, ahead of, previous to (someone or something).
- I'll take the one in front of the black one.
- Write ‘Professor’ in front of her name.
in front of meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
in front of in Hindi
- at or near the front part of
- ... के आगे ... ke āge
in front of in Tamil
- முன்னால்
in front of in Marathi
- in front of
- समोर samor
in front of in Urdu
- at or near the front part of
- ... کے آگے ... ke āge
More languagesFewer languages
- in front of in Bengali
- সামনে śamne, হমকে homke, সমকে śomke
- in front of in Malayalam
- മുൻപിൽ muṉpil
- in front of in Kannada
- ಮುಂದೆ munde
- in front of in Punjabi
- ਸਾਮ੍ਹਣੇ sāmhṇe, ساہمنے sāhmṇe, ਮੁਹਰੇ muhre
- in front of in Gujarati
- સામે sāme
- in front of in Nepali
- अघि aghi
- in front of in Pashto
- په وړاندې pë wrândai
- in front of in Arabic
- أَمَامَ ʔamāma, قُدَّامَ quddāma, بَيْنَ يَدَيْ bayna yaday
- in front of in Malay
- di hadapan
- in front of in Persian
- جلوی jelu-ye
- in front of in Vietnamese
- phía trước
- in front of in Myanmar
- ရှေ့ hre.
Examples of in front of in a sentence
- Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.1872, Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore:
- Several people are in front of me in line.a. 2002, “Mandi”, quoted in Nicholas E. Brink, Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery, and...
Synonyms of in front of
Antonyms
- after
- behind
- in back of
- away from
- in the absence of
- without
Questions about in front of
- What does in front of mean?
- In front of means at or near the front part of (something).
- What is in front of in Hindi?
- In front of in Hindi is ... के आगे (... ke āge). See In front of meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use in front of in a sentence?
- Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.
- What part of speech is in front of?
- In front of is a preposition.
Words near in front of in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: in front of (page history and authors); in front of (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); समोर (Marathi) (page history and authors); সমকে (Bengali) (page history and authors); മുൻപിൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಮುಂದೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ساہمنے (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સામે (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अघि (Nepali) (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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