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Definition of Frontward
1. Adverb. At or to or toward the front. "She practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"
Language type: Accent, Dialect, Idiom
Antonyms: Backward
Definition of Frontward
1. Adjective. Frontwards. ¹
2. Adverb. Frontwards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frontward
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontward
Literary usage of Frontward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight." by Floyd Phillips Gibbons (1918)
"WE WOULDN'T FIGHT" CHAPTER VI "frontward HO!" ii7 WHEN the artillery training
had proceeded to such a point that the French instructors were congratulating ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"frontward tendency, ie, one going straight ahead upon presentation of the cue.
For example, in the lines, "The blessed damozel leaned out Prom the gold bar ..."
3. The Spelling Experimenter and Phonetic Investigator by W. R. Evans (1884)
"frontward. Mid. Backward. Back, i ie ё J e' e e» | œ ae a a° о | oa о ou | o u°
u Of the mixed vowels, D would be " mid mixed ;" sounds of the œ type would ..."
4. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1886)
"ANDREAS faces frontward, with beard cut rather ... JOHANNES faces frontward, with
a sentimental expression. He has long curling hair and a blond beard. ..."
5. Specimens of Early English: With Introductions, Notes, and Glossarial Index by Richard Morris (1887)
"... frontward, far away from. Our froward represents M. ... a Northern form of AS
frontward. 80. ..."
6. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon (1883)
"... seizes the arm-hole of the kirtle in front, I., 64, n ;—frontward, towards
the front, ... adv., frontward, in front, I., 544, lg. ..."
7. Song-roundels and Games by Henry Suder (1904)
"Two by two we join the hand, Circle round, then frontward ... Two by two we
frontward turn, Hopping-step you next must learn. Bend trunk sideways, try your ..."
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