afront

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   archaic or dialectal: in front or face to face

   The guide walked afront while the others followed in single file.

2. 2
   prep

   archaic or dialectal: in front of

   The rider stopped afront the waiting crowd.

Formed from a- + front. The prefix here creates an adverb or preposition of position, as in aboard and ahead; the word now survives chiefly in historical and dialectal writing.

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