foreground
foreground is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advance
- advanced
- ahead
- anterior
- anteriority
- beak
- before
- bend
- bow
- brow
- coin
- come
- confront
- countenance
- disc
- disk
- divine
- est
- facade
- face
- facia
- first
- fore
- forehead
- foremost
- forepart
- forwards
- frons
- front
- frontage
- frontal
- frontispiece
- guard
- imago
- indices
- jib
- lee
- line
- medal
- metoposcopy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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