POLAR FRONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polar front mean? 

• POLAR FRONT (noun)
  The noun POLAR FRONT has 1 sense:

1. the front of an advancing mass of colder air

  Familiarity information: POLAR FRONT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLAR FRONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front of an advancing mass of colder air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

cold front; polar front

Hypernyms ("polar front" is a kind of...):

front ((meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polar front"):

squall line (a cold front along which squalls or thunderstorms are likely)