Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Toward the front; forward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Oriented towards the front.
  • adverb Towards the front.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb at or to or toward the front

Etymologies

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frontward +‎ -s

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Examples

  • The way I described, it gets written "frontwards" plaintiff

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • The way I described, it gets written "frontwards" 14.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • Thomas Spray, MD: The septum, the partition between the two ventricles, forms slightly more anterior or frontwards than it should.

    Tetralogy of Fallot — How TOF Develops 2010

  • But Scott never visited America, where his fans perused his books frontwards while waiting for Mark Twain to be born.

    Dave Astor: Co-Pay's Anatomy 2009

  • But even if it were frontwards, I doubt it would have passed forensic muster.

    Report: McCain Volunteer Who Claimed "Carved B" Attack Confesses To Making Up Story 2009

  • Is his head turned backwards or his back turned frontwards?

    Reality Bites 2009

  • I never cared to learn figure skating (and had I did, I would have been endlessly frustrated), but back in the day, I was able to skate both backwards and forwards with power, shift from frontwards to backwards at full speed, cross-over on both sides, turn by lunging, and stop on a dime with a hockey stop.

    No spring chicken Celeste Winant 2007

  • I never cared to learn figure skating (and had I did, I would have been endlessly frustrated), but back in the day, I was able to skate both backwards and forwards with power, shift from frontwards to backwards at full speed, cross-over on both sides, turn by lunging, and stop on a dime with a hockey stop.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Celeste Winant 2007

  • At last, the bulldozer managed to drag the stalled vehicle out frontwards.

    The Accuser 2005

  • At last, the bulldozer managed to drag the stalled vehicle out frontwards.

    The Accuser 2005

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