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The side that is forward or prominent
Answer for the clue "The side that is forward or prominent ", 8 letters:
forepart
Word definitions for forepart in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front , front end ] [ant: rear ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The front or anterior part of something
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fore-part , c.1400, from fore- + part (n).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fore part \Fore" part`\, or Forepart \Fore"part`\, n. The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.
Usage examples of forepart.
There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which terminated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike forepart.
The spawn beat the foreparts of their bodies upon the ground and then were still.
A woman of rank will not drive out without one of these pages seated in the forepart of her carriage.
After breakfast we set out, I sitting in the forepart of the carriage, facing Marcoline and Dame Veneranda, who would have made me laugh under any other circumstances, her astonishment at finding herself in a more gorgeous carriage than the ambassador's was so great.
On the forepart of the crown gleamed a small round convex lens crafted of dark crystal.