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frontward

or front·wards

[ fruhnt-werd ]

adverb

  1. in a direction toward the front.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of frontward1

First recorded in 1545–55; front + -ward

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Example Sentences

I’m sure that will change, and all I can hope is that I can still keep up in a few years—skiing frontward or backwards.

It reported a bullet entering the right side of his head and exiting the left side after being shot from a “slightly frontward” direction.

This was riding frontward with the guns—this was rolling and rumbling on through the night up toward the glare and glamour of war.

On the broad, paved highway from Paris to Meaux, my car passed miles and miles of loaded motor trucks bound frontward.

And what he says about the pruriently titillating convexities, whether frontward or hindward, suggests a little prudery.

A back rest would throw one forward in a frontward lurch, and give no support in case of a backward one.

Over and over he went, sometimes backward and sometimes frontward, and sometimes sideways.

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