front seat
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- noun
- /frʌnt siːt/
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- Liddie sat with him in the front seat and moved the dial quickly from station to station.
- sit in the front seat
- front seat of a car
There's a lot of luxury stuff in here moving the front seat and all that.
- There's a lot of luxury stuff in here moving the front seat and all that.
- So Josh is sitting on the front seat and he starts talking to this Uber driver.
- That, that scene that Val Kilmer and I had in the front seat of the car was an example of that.
- And then the siblings may argue about the parent who gets to sit in the front seat with them or who gets to spend the day with them.
- So since I'm in the front seat right now, I can say, hey, Mercedes, how can I help?
- And the thing that they mentioned in the EMT report is that the kid had French fries all over his front seat.
Examples
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Next day, I found a package on the front seat of my car.
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I asked to sit in the front seat.
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I wanted the front seat, though.
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Frank takes a last look, then gets into the front seat next to Tony.
Fiction book (1992) -
The student with the highest score had the honor of sitting in the front seat, first row.
Academic text (2009) -
The child sits straight up in the front seat next to her father.
Fiction book (1991) -
I was eleven years old and sitting in the front seat of our rusty Ford station wagon.
Fiction book (1992) -
The child was excited to ride in the front seat on our road trip.
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He noticed a stain on the front seat where someone had spilled coffee.
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Make sure your seatbelt is fastened in the front seat before we start driving.
Synonyms
The front passenger seat people think is most dangerous in a car crash
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning 'the seat in the front of a vehicle' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'front' (forward part) with 'seat' (place to sit). This adjective+noun compound follows a regular, cross-linguistic compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun front seat combines front, the part at the very front, and seat, where you sit, to make a clear picture of the place next to the driver. So it means the seat in the front of a car, usually 'next to the driver'.