front seat en · NOUN
Meanings
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A seat in the front of the vehicle, especially the one next to the driver.
Being that the leading cause of death in children over the age of three is motor vehicle collisions, parents should do everything possible to get their kids to buckle up and to keep smaller children from sitting in the deathtrap otherwise known as the front seat.
2012 August 8, Lindsay Abrams, “Study: We Are Pathetically Failing at Safely Putting Children in Cars”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023:Who gets to sit in the front seat of the car?
The state police recovered a broken, jumbo (1.75-liter) bottle of vodka under the front seat of the burned-out wreckage of the minivan.
Coordinate term: back seat
- (figuratively) A position of influence or priority.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| front seats | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| frontseat | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
take the front seat · frontseater
Relateds
passenger seat · death seat · shotgun
Translations (15)
fr siège avant (seat) · fi etupenkki (seat) · de Vordersitz (seat) · da forsæde (seat) · it sedile anteriore (seat) · fi etuistuin (seat) · es asiento delantero (seat) · ar مَقْعَد أَمَامِيّ (seat) · sv framsäte (seat) · ja 前部座席 (seat) · nb forsete (seat) · ko 앞좌석 (seat) · ja フロントシート (seat) · nn forsete (seat) · is framsæti (seat)