Front may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''The Front'' (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet drama film * '' The Front'', 1976 film

Music

* The Front (band), an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and early 1990s *

The Front (Canadian band) Joel Richard Stephan Feeney (born November 21, 1957) is a Canadian country, pop music singer, songwriter and record producer. History Joel Feeney commenced his recording career with the pop rock band The Front. Feeney was also a producer on albu ...

, a Canadian studio band from the 1980s

Periodicals

* ''Front'' (magazine), a British men's magazine * '' Front Illustrated Paper'', a publication of the Yugoslav People's Army

Television

* Front TV, a Toronto broadcast design and branding firm * "The Front" (''The Blacklist''), a 2014 episode of the TV series ''The Blacklist'' * "The Front" (''The Simpsons''), a 1993 episode of the TV series ''The Simpsons''

Military

Front (military) In a military context, the term front can have several meanings. According to official US Department of Defense and NATO definitions, a front can be "the line of contact of two opposing forces."Leonard, B. (2011). Department of Defense Dicti ...

, a geographical area where armies are engaged in conflict *

Front (military formation) A front () is a type of military formation that originated in the Russian Empire, and has been used by the Polish Army, the Red Army, the Soviet Army, and Turkey. It is roughly equivalent to an army group in the military of most other countries ...

, roughly, an army group, especially in eastern Europe

Places

* Front, Piedmont, an Italian municipality * The Front, now part of the Delaware Park-Front Park System, in Buffalo, New York, United States * The transition area between a mountain and a plain, possibly related to the notion of a frontslope; for example: ** Rocky Mountain Front **

Wasatch Front The Wasatch Front is a major metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from Santaquin in the south to Pleasant View in the n ...

Science and technology

Front (oceanography) In oceanography, a front is a boundary between two distinct water masses. The formation of fronts depends on multiple physical processes and small differences in these lead to a wide range of Front (oceanography)#Type of fronts, front types. They c ...

, a place where two water masses come together in the ocean * Front (physics), a solution connecting two steady states * Front (sociology), or mask, in dramaturgy *

Front and back From an articulatory perspective, phonemes can be described as front or back. Front vowels refer to vowels articulated towards the front of the mouth. This can either refer to vowels that are more front than Central vowel, central or, more rarely ...

, descriptors of phonemes in linguistics *

Front vowel A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned approximately as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction th ...

, a class of vowel sounds, in linguistics *

Ice front A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality they are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating. Th ...

of a glacier *

Weather front A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity. Disturbed and unstable weather due to these differences often arises along the boundary. For ins ...

, a boundary separating air masses, and the cause of most weather phenomena

Other uses

Front organization A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, terrorist organizations, secret societies, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy ...

, any entity set up by and controlled by another organization *

Front (Polish party) Front is a Russophilia, Russophilic List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party was founded in 2022 by Krzysztof Tołwiński, a former politician of Polish People's Party and Law and Justice that was the Polish Ministr ...

, Polish political party *

Rebecca Front Rebecca Louise Front (born 16 May 1964) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for '' The Thick of It'' (2009–2012).Jennifer Lipma"Bafta for Jewish actress Rebecca Front" ...

(born 1964), English comedy actress *

Grill (jewelry) In pop culture, a grill (most commonly referred to as grills or grillz), also known as fronts or golds, is a type of dental jewelry worn over the teeth. Grills are made of metal and are generally removable but can also be permanent. They were po ...

, also known as "front", jewelry for teeth