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league
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li??/
- Rhymes: -i??
Etymology 1
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).
Derived terms
Related terms
- ally
- alliance
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
- ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)
Translations
Verb
league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Middle English Dictionary, lege
league From the web:
- = 5.55600 kilometers
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front
English
Etymology
From Middle English front, frunt, frount, from Old French front, frunt, from Latin frons, frontem (“forehead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
front (countable and uncountable, plural fronts)
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- A field of activity.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
- (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- (military) The direction of the enemy.
- (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- (historical) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- (dated) Cheek; boldness; impudence.
- (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh
- like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears a front
- 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh
- The most conspicuous part.
- (obsolete) The beginning.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 102
- summer's front
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 102
- (Britain) A seafront or coastal promenade.
- (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, Seeing the Duke of Ormond's Picture at Sir Godfrey Kneller's
- His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
- (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word "front" used as an exclamation.
- (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
Synonyms
- fore
Antonyms
- back
- rear
Hyponyms
- (The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves): (nautical) bow (of a ship)
Derived terms
Related terms
- affront
- effrontery
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: fran
- ? Japanese: ???? (furonto)
- ? Korean: ??? (peureonteu)
Translations
Adjective
front (comparative further front, superlative furthest front)
- Located at or near the front.
- The front runner was thirty meters ahead of her nearest competitor.
- 2001, Fritz Stern, Einstein's German World
- You also were in the furthest front line in order to help and learn and to study the conditions for using the gas process [Gasver-fahren] of every kind.
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
Synonyms
- (located near the front): first, lead, fore
Antonyms
- (located near the front): back, last, rear
- (phonetics): back
Translations
Verb
front (third-person singular simple present fronts, present participle fronting, simple past and past participle fronted)
- (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
- The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, 2011, p.35:
- The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, 2011, p.312:
- They emerged atop the broad curving steps that fronted on the Street of the Sisters, near the foot of Visenya's Hill.
- 2010, Ingrid D Rowland, "The Siege of Rome", New York Review of Books, Blog, 26 March:
- The palazzo has always fronted on a bus stop—but this putative man of the people has kindly put an end to that public service.
- (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, 1985, p.66:
- After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- […] down they ran into the dining-room, which fronted the lane, in quest of this wonder; it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton at the garden gate.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, 2006, p.49:
- She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, 1985, p.66:
- (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- Know you not Gaueston hath store of golde,
- Which may in Ireland purchase him such friends,
- As he will front the mightiest of vs all,
- 1623, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2:
- What well-appointed leader fronts us here?
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[1]
- (transitive) To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
- 2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148:
- Three tiers of balconies fronted with roped columns supporting arched openings looked down on the marble hall.
- 2001, Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation, page 148:
- (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- 2005, Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page 48:
- The velar plosives are often fronted through the influence of a following front vowel, and retracted through the influence of a following back vowel.
- 2005, Paul Skandera / Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, page 48:
- (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- 2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
- […] in the clause, only the adjective may be fronted; but if both a past participle and a verbal particle are present, either may be fronted. Topicalization, in which maximal projections are fronted to express pragmatics such as contrast, emphasis, ...
- 2010, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language
- A problem facing any syntactic analysis of hyperbaton is that nonconstituent strings are fronted […] In cases where the adjective is fronted with the determiner, the determiner is not doubled […]
- 2001, Arthur J. Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson, Åke Viberg, Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
- (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- 2007, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, page 183:
- Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
- 2007, Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher, page 183:
- (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- 2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian:
- Ray Winstone is fronting a campaign for the Football Association that aims to stop pushy parents shouting abuse at their children during the grassroots football season.
- 2009 September 1, Mark Sweney, The Guardian:
- (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- 2004, Danielle Steele, Ransom, p.104:
- I'm prepared to say that I fronted you the money for a business deal with me, and the investment paid off brilliantly.
- 2004, Danielle Steele, Ransom, p.104:
- (intransitive, slang) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Synonyms: put on airs, feign
- 2008, Briscoe/Akinyemi, ‘Womanizer’:
- Boy don't try to front, / I-I know just-just what you are, are-are.
- 2008 Markus Naerheim, The City, p.531
- You know damned straight what this is about, or you ain't as smart as you been frontin'.
- (transitive) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- (transitive) To appear before.
Translations
See also
- front vowel
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan front, from Latin frontem, accusative singular of fr?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ron-t-, from *b?ren- (“project”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?f?ont/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?f?on/
Noun
front m (plural fronts)
- front
- forehead
Derived terms
- fer front
Related terms
- afrontar
- fronter
Further reading
- “front” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “front” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “front” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “front” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Noun
front m
- front (subdivision of the Soviet army)
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French front (noun), fronter (verb), from Latin frons (“forehead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
front n (plural fronten, diminutive frontje n)
- front
Derived terms
- thuisfront
French
Etymology
From Old French front, from Latin frontem, accusative singular of fr?ns, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ron-t-, from *b?ren- (“project”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???/
- Homophones: ferons, feront
Noun
front m (plural fronts)
- forehead
- (military) front, frontline
Derived terms
Related terms
- frontal
Descendants
- ? Bulgarian: ????? (front)
- ? Czech: front, fronta
- ? German: Front
- ? Hungarian: front
- ? Russian: ????? (front)
- ? Bashkir: ????? (front)
- ? Irish: fronta
- ? Macedonian: ????? (front)
- ? Norwegian: front
- ? Polish: front
- ? Portuguese: front
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: fr?nt, frònta
- Cyrillic: ??????
- ? Swedish: front
See also
- sinciput
Further reading
- “front” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin frontem, accusative singular of fr?ns.
Noun
front m (plural fronts)
- (anatomy) forehead
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Front, from French fronte, from Latin frons, frontis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?front]
- Hyphenation: front
- Rhymes: -ont
Noun
front (plural frontok)
- (military) front (an area where armies are engaged in conflict)
- (military) a unit composed of several, normally three, army groups, cf. German Front, [2a]
- (meteorology) front (the interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density)
- (architecture) front, face (the side of a building with the main entrance)
Declension
Coordinate terms
- (military units) ?rs/t?zcsoport < raj < szakasz < század < zászlóalj < ezred < dandár < hadosztály < hadtest < hadsereg < hadseregcsoport < front
References
Middle English
Noun
front
- Alternative form of frount
Norman
Etymology
From Old French front, from Latin fr?ns, frontem.
Noun
front m (plural fronts)
- (military) front
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French front.
Noun
front m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural fronter, definite plural frontene)
- front
Synonyms
- forside, framside, fremside
Derived terms
- frontkollisjon
- frontrute
- kaldfront
- sjøfront
References
- “front” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French front.
Noun
front m (definite singular fronten, indefinite plural frontar, definite plural frontane)
- front
Synonyms
- framside
Derived terms
- frontkollisjon
- frontrute
- kaldfront
- sjøfront
References
- “front” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin fr?ns, frontem.
Noun
front m (oblique plural fronz or frontz, nominative singular fronz or frontz, nominative plural front)
- forehead
- (military) front
Descendants
- French: front (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: front
- ? Dutch: front
- ? Middle English: frount, frunt, front, frownt, frunte, fronte, frownte, frounte, ffrount, ffront, frountte
- English: front
- Tok Pisin: fran
- ? Japanese: ???? (furonto)
- ? Korean: ??? (peureonteu)
- Scots: front
- English: front
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- frònta (Croatia)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /frônt/
Noun
fr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- (military) front
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
front c
- The front end or side of something.
- Bilen hade fått en ful buckla på fronten.
- "There was an ugly bump on the front of the car."
- Bilen hade fått en ful buckla på fronten.
- front - the area were two armies are fighting each other.
- På västfronten intet nytt (All Quiet on the Western Front, book by Erich Maria Remarque)
- front - area were hot and cold air meet
- front - one aspect of a larger undertaking which is temporarily seen as a separate undertaking in order to evaluate its progress in relationship to the whole.
Declension
Derived terms
- västfront
- östfront
- kallfront
- varmfront
Anagrams
- fornt
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