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English [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] Preposition [ edit ] in front of
At or near the front part of (something).
1872 Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore [1] Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.
In the presence of , in view of (someone).
Don't fight in front of the children! 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette , Michael Goudeau , quoting Sareen, 11:30 from the start, in Penn Radio [2] 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 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.
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. a. 2002 , “Mandi”, quoted in Nicholas E. Brink, Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery, and Hypnosis , Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. (2002), →ISBN , page 1 :
Several people are in front of me in line. The woman next in front of me is older, probably in her fifties. Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] at or near the front part of
Arabic: أَمَامَ ( ʔamāma ) , قُدَّامَ ( quddāma ) , بَيْنَ يَدَيْ ( bayna yaday ) ( archaic )
Egyptian Arabic: قدام ( ʔodām )
Hijazi Arabic: قُدَّام ( guddām ) , مُقَابِل ( mugābil )
Moroccan Arabic: قدام ( quddām )
Azerbaijani: qabağında qarşısında başında önündə
Belarusian: пе́рад ( pjérad )
Bulgarian: пред (bg) ( pred )
Burmese: ရှေ့ (my) ( hre. )
Catalan: enfront de davant (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ...面前 (zh) ( ...miànqián )
Czech: před (cs)
Danish: foran (da)
Dutch: voor (nl)
Esperanto: antaŭ (eo)
Estonian: ees (et)
Finnish: ...-n edessä ( with genitive )
French: devant (fr) , en face de (fr)
German: vor (de)
Greek: μπροστά (el) ( brostá )
Ancient: ἐνώπιον ( enṓpion ) ( + genitive ) , ἔμπροσθεν ( émprosthen ) ( + genitive )
Hindi: ... के आगे (hi) ( ... ke āge )
Icelandic: fyrir framan framan við
Ido: avan (io)
Irish: ar aghaidh
Italian: davanti (it) a
Japanese: ...の前に (ja) ( ...のまえに, ... no mae ni )
Korean: ...의 앞에 ( ...ui ape )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: لەبەر ( leber ) , لەبەر ... دا ( leber ... da )
Northern Kurdish: li ber (ku)
Ladino: delantre de
Latin: ante (la) ( + accusative ) , prae (la) ( + ablative ) , pro (la)
Lithuanian: priešais
Macedonian: пред ( pred )
Malay: di hadapan
Navajo: bidáahgi
Norman: ( Guernsey ) d'vànt ( Jersey ) d'vant
Norwegian: foran (no)
Pashto: په وړاندې (ps) ( pë wrândai )
Persian: جلوی (fa) ( jelu-ye )
Polish: przed (pl)
Portuguese: na frente de ante (pt)
Russian: пе́ред (ru) ( péred ) ( + instrumental case )
Scottish Gaelic: air beulaibh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пред
Roman: pred
Sicilian: di facci a
Slovak: pred
Slovene: pred (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pśed
Upper Sorbian: před
Spanish: en frente de delante de
Swedish: framför (sv)
Tocharian B: ānte
Ukrainian: пе́ред (uk) ( péred )
Urdu: ... کے آگے (ur) ( ... ke āge )
Vietnamese: phía trước (vi)
Walloon: divant (wa)
West Frisian: foar
in the presence of someone
Arabic: أَمَامَ ( ʔamāma )
Egyptian Arabic: قدام ( ʔodām )
Hijazi Arabic: قُدَّام ( guddām )
Moroccan Arabic: قدام ( quddām )
Azerbaijani: qarşısında önündə
Catalan: davant (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ...面前 ( miànqián )
Czech: před (cs)
Danish: foran (da)
Dutch: voor (nl) , in het bijzijn van
Finnish: ...-n edessä ( with genitive ) , nähden (fi) ( + genitive )
French: devant (fr)
Galician: ante (gl) , perante (gl)
German: vor (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἐνώπιον ( enṓpion ) ( + genitive )
Hungarian: előtt (hu)
Irish: ar aghaidh
Japanese: ...の前 に ( ... no mae ni )
Korean: ...의 앞에 ( ...ui ape )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەرامبەر (ckb) ( beramber ) , بەردەم ( berdem )
Latin: prō (la)
Norman: ( Guernsey ) d'vànt ( Jersey ) d'vant
Polish: przy (pl) , w obecności w obliczu (pl)
Portuguese: na frente de ante (pt)
Russian: пе́ред (ru) ( péred ) ( + instrumental case ) , на виду ( na vidu )
Scottish Gaelic: air beulaibh
Sicilian: di facci a facci
Slovak: pred
Spanish: delante de (es) , ante (es)
Swedish: framför (sv) , inför (sv)
Tocharian B: enepre
Turkish: önünde (tr) , karşısında
Walloon: divant (wa)
located before (something else)
Albanian: përpara (sq)
Arabic: أَمَامَ ( ʔamāma )
Egyptian Arabic: قدام ( ʔodām )
Moroccan Arabic: قدام ( quddām )
Aromanian: nãnti ninti (roa-rup) , nãinti
Azerbaijani: qabağında qabaq (az) ( temporal ) , öncə ( temporal )
Catalan: davant (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ...面前 ( ... miànqián )
Czech: před (cs)
Danish: foran (da)
Dutch: voor (nl)
Finnish: -n edessä ( with genitive )
French: devant (fr) , en face de (fr)
German: vor (de)
Hungarian: előtt (hu)
Irish: ar aghaidh ar ceann
Italian: davanti a
Japanese: ...の前 に ( ... no mae ni )
Korean: 전에 ( jeone ) , ...의 앞에 ( ...ui ape )
Norman: ( Guernsey ) d'vànt ( Jersey ) d'vant
Polish: przed (pl)
Portuguese: na frente de
Russian: пе́ред (ru) ( péred ) ( + instrumental case ) , впереди́ (ru) ( vperedí ) , пе́редо (ru) ( péredo ) , ( archaic ) пред (ru) ( pred ) , ( vernacular ) наперёд (ru) ( naperjód )
Scottish Gaelic: air beulaibh ro
Sicilian: di facci a
Slovak: pred
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pśed
Spanish: en frente de delante de
Taos: cʼə́otho
Turkish: önünde (tr) , berisinde gerisinde
Walloon: divant (wa) , a l' adroet di (wa)
West Frisian: foar
Translations to be checked
References [ edit ] “in front of ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search . Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press (2003), →ISBN .