Word Meanings - ANTERO- - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

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• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• FRONTIER
  An outwork. Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak. (more info) 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country;
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• FRONTLESS
  Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.
• FRONTON
  See 2
• FRONTIGNAC; FRONTIGNAN
  A grape of many varieties and colors. (more info) 1. A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan , France.
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• FRONT
  1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• FRONTISPIECE
  The part which first meets the eye; as: The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself. (more info) beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• EFFRONTUOUSLY
  Impudently. R. North.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• BIFRONTED
  Having two fronts. "Bifronted Janus." Massinger.