| 单词 | afront of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasafront of 3. In front. Now chiefly in afront of: = sense B. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [adverb] aforeOE forneOE beforeOE aforewarda1200 afornonc1275 toforec1330 onwardc1385 bifornysc1420 forouth1487 ahead1568 afrontc1570 forwardly1578 anteriorly1598 foremostly1607 devant1609 forward1619 forward on1630 front-wise1774 vanward1827 out front1934 upfront1937 c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 215 Laird Wemis with that company..set apoun the ennemyis afrount. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 71/2 in Chron. I Least his people shoulde be assailed not onely afront, but also vpon euery side. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ii. 416/1 No way lay open saue onely a front. 1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes sig. Cv The Bulwarkes stand afront to keepe thee out. 1809 T. Lloyd Rep. Trial Gen. M. Bright 40 General Bright and some of the other men came round and stationed themselves afront of the house. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxiii. 340 When he got a-front of us he lifts his hat. 1890 Temple-Bar Mag. Feb. 217 His looks are far away, straight afront into the day. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. (ed. 2) Afront, in front. 1997 B. Cornwell Sharpe's Tiger (1999) 211 ‘I'm here, sir!’ Fitzgerald called confidently from the darkness ahead. ‘Up afront of you.’ < as lemmas |
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