face-to-faceadverb [ before noun ], adjective
uk/ˌfeɪs.təˈfeɪs/us/ˌfeɪs.təˈfeɪs/B1 directly, meeting someone in the same place:
We've spoken on the phone but never face-to-face.
She came face-to-face with her attacker in the courtroom.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Closeness in distance and time
- a few/couple of steps idiom
- a hair's breadth idiom
- a stone's throw idiom
- ace
- anywhere
- anywhere near idiom
- eyeball to eyeball idiom
- float around
- hand to hand idiom
- hard by
- here
- proximity
- roof
- round the corner idiom
- shadow
- shout
- step
- stick together
- towards
- under the same roof idiom
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