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Definition of Frontwards
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 Frontwards
1. Adjective. Oriented towards the front. ¹
2. Adverb. Towards the front. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frontwards
1. frontward [n] - See also: frontward
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontwards
Literary usage of Frontwards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... order one Troop immediately marching frontwards Charing-Cross to Westminster
and another frontwards Westminster to Charing- Cross, purposely to masker ..."
2. The Iliad by Homer (1851)
"... first was leader of the flight; for he was wounded slightly 1 on the tip of
the shoulder with a spear, bring always turned frontwards; but the spear of ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"The eye placed on the blind side actually travels from its original place (symmetrical
with the eye of the opposite side) frontwards and upwards on the ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"... whose shoulders showed me their full breadth while he stood displaying frontwards
the open of his hand in a salute. 'Schwartz!' I called. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1832)
"... palpi are inserted under the lateral edges of the mentum, or in the edges
themselves, so that the first articulations do not appear, looking frontwards. ..."
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