The part of the field or expanse of a picture which seems to lie before the figures.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
Front Roget’s Thesaurus §234
N. front, fore, forepart, foreground, face, disk, disc, frontage, facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece, anteriority, obverse, fore rank, front rank, van, vanguard, advanced guard, outpost, first line, scout, brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut*, rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib, pioneer, metoposcopy
V. be in front, stand in front, front, face, confront, bend forwards, come to the front, come to the fore
Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal
Adv. before, in front, in the van, in advance, ahead, right ahead, forehead, foremost, in the foreground, in the lee of, before one's face, before one's eyes, face to face, vis-a-vis, front a front
Phr. formosa muta commendatio est, frons est animi janua, "human face divine", imago animi vultus est indices oculi, "sea of upturned faces"
No Bible verses found for "foreground".