Synonyms of the word

prow

• n. (nautical) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
• adj. (archaic) Brave, valiant, gallant.
• n. Alternative form of proa.

bow

• n. A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string,…
• n. A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
• n. A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various…
• n. A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the…
• n. A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and…
• n. Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
• n. The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
• n. Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating…
• n. (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
• n. (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
• n. The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
• v. To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow.
• v. (intransitive) To become bent or curved.
• v. (transitive) To make something bend or curve.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively;…
• v. (intransitive) To premiere.
• v. (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
• v. (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
• v. (intransitive) To defer (to something).
• n. A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence.
• n. (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.

fore

• adj. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
• adj. Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
• interj. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
• n. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
• adv. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
• adv. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
• adv. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
• v. simple past tense of fare.

front

• n. The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
• n. The side of a building with the main entrance.
• n. A field of activity.
• n. A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
• n. (meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting…
• n. (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
• n. (military) The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity…
• n. (military) The direction of the enemy.
• n. (military) When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command…
• n. (obsolete) A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
• n. (informal) An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
• n. (historical) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
• n. The most conspicuous part.
• n. (obsolete) The beginning.
• n. (Britain) a seafront or coastal promenade.
• n. (obsolete) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
• n. (slang, hotels, dated) The bellhop whose turn it is to answer a client's call, which is often the word…
• adj. Located at or near the front.
• adj. (comparable, phonetics) Of a vowel pronounced near the tip of the tongue.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction.
• v. (transitive) To face, be opposite to.
• v. (transitive) To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
• v. (transitive) To adorn the front of; to put on the front.
• v. (phonetics, transitive, intransitive) To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
• v. (linguistics, transitive) To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
• v. (transitive) To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
• v. (intransitive) To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
• v. (transitive) To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
• v. To appear before, as in to front court.

stem

• n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• n. A branch of a family.
• n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
• n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
• n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
• n. (slang) A person's leg.
• n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
• n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
• n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• n. (slang) A crack pipe.
• v. To remove the stem from.
• v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
• v. To descend in a family line.
• v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
• v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
• v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
• v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
• v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
• n. Alternative form of steem.
• n. Alternative form of STEM.