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new-front

new-front verb: to put a new front on, or receive a new front.

Verb

new-front (third-person singular simple present new-fronts, present participle new-fronting, simple past and past participle new-fronted)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
    • […] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady
    • […] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales

Forms of new-front

third-person singular presentnew-fronts
present participlenew-fronting
past participlenew-fronted
pastnew-fronted

Origin of new-front

From new- + front.

Questions about new-front

What does new-front mean?
New-front means to put a new front on, or receive a new front.
What part of speech is new-front?
New-front is a verb.
What is the past tense of new-front?
The past tense of new-front is new-fronted.

Words near new-front in the dictionary

  1. new-energy vehicles
  2. new-fangled
  3. new-fashioned
  4. new-found
  5. new-founded
  6. new-front
  7. new-fronting
  8. new-furnish
  9. new-generation
  10. new-ish
  11. new-look

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