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Definition of Front line
1. Noun. The line along which opposing armies face each other.
Group relationships: Battlefield, Battleground, Field, Field Of Battle, Field Of Honor
Generic synonyms: Line
Derivative terms: Frontal
Definition of Front line
1. Noun. (military) A front, or a boundary between opposing positions. ¹
2. Noun. A site of a conflict, effort, or controversial matter of any kind. ¹
3. Noun. The site of interaction with outsiders, such as customers. ¹
4. Noun. (euphemistic) A low level. ¹
5. Noun. (soccer) attack, collectively the attackers or forwards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Front Line
Literary usage of Front line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"You will raid front line trench at 10.15 to-night aaa. Raiding party to consist
of one ... You will relieve front line system the night of Feb. 19 aaa. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"I sounded the forward, and advanced my front line down the slope, ... In this
position my two left regiments in the front line had crossed and lay to the ..."
3. Digest of the Law of Restrictions on the Use of Real Property by Claude Perrin Berry (1915)
"Restriction establishing "front line" of building.— Awning projecting. A restrictive
covenant "that the front lines of any messuages, dwelling houses or ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"In man as Nature made him, the front line of the facial angle can form an angular
relation to the axis of the body through the base-line of the facial angle ..."
5. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER XV ON THE SOMME: ORDEAL BY BATTLE The soldiers in the front line—Courtesy
among the aviators— "English have not won enough ground to bury their dead ..."
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