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in front of

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infrontof

  1. At ornear the front part of (something).
    There’s abus stopin front of the faculty entrance, right on the same side of the road.
    I jerked thelittle girl back fromin front of a speeding car justin time.
    • 1872, Charles Hardwick,Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore‎[1]:
      Both parties metin front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.
  2. In the presence of,in view of (someone).
    Don't fightin front of the children!
    • 2006 May 9,Penn Jillette,Michael Goudeau, quoting Sareen, 11:30 from the start, inPenn Radio‎[2]:
      What happened to me was, rightin front of my eyes- I was there with my brother- and rightin 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 make, you know, sell the fruit. But all of the sudden just a bunch of monkeys came by robbed the whole thing he had. It was like thirty of them, just robbed him blind the poor guy. He was chasing them all over. He would chase one and they would jump off and then come back and it was like the funniest thing I've ever seen.
  3. Locatedbefore,ahead of,previous to (someone or something).
    I'll take the onein front of the black one.
    Write ‘Professor’in front of her name.

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at or near the front part of
in the presence of someone
located before (something else)
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References

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  • “in front of”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  • Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", inThe Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press (2003),→ISBN.
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