front row
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- noun
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primera fila
- We sat in the front row at the concert and had an amazing view of the stage.
- sit in the front row
- front row seats
I see John Henry from the Boston Globe in the front row as well.
- I see John Henry from the Boston Globe in the front row as well.
- So she's actually the one who's got a front row seat to the things he's saying.
- G starts with AG, though, sitting on the front row of Miss Ennis's history class.
- So they bring us up to the front row and sit us next to your parents.
- I mean, you know, we got more of a front row seat and help build this thing.
- And there was a girl in the front row, a blonde girl.
- That's the way you create because we have kind of like a front row seat to what's happening.
- Trump bought that, brought them to sit near the front row when he was debating Hillary Clinton.
- First up, have we got anyone on the front row?
- OK, yes, gentleman in the front row and white top.
Examples
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Yeah, we sat in the front row.
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The two men sit together in the front row of the small theater.
Academic text (1993) -
So they bring us up to the front row and sit us next to your parents.
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There was a guy in the front row.
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Her supportive family is seated, as always, in the front row, center.
Academic text (2000) -
My mom's in the front row.
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The three of them are in the front row of benches.
Fiction book (1997) -
The little girl in the front row is musician Courtney Love at age six.
Academic text (2009) -
He's at the marriage conference, VIP in the front row and taking notes.
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Get comfy because this is a front row seat to his wildly beautiful genius.
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Morphology
The meaning 'the first row of seats closest to the stage' is directly and transparently composed from 'front' (nearest) + 'row' (a line of seats/people). This straightforward spatial noun-noun composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun front row comes from the simple image of the seats at the very front of a row next to the stage, where you are closest to the action. That's why front row means 'the first row of seats closest to the stage or screen'.