forefront I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\noun Etymology: Middle English forfrount, forefrount, from for-, fore- + frount front — more at front : the foremost part or place : vanguard < had lived in the forefront of her time — Virginia Woolf > < in the forefront of cultural civilization — G.B.Shaw > II. transitive verb : to provide with a forefront