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Meaning of 'foreground' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Foreground [ n.]
- On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.

Meaning of 'foreground' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . foreground [ v]
Meaning (1):
- move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
Example in sentence:
  • The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics

Nearby Words:

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