POLAR FRONT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The front of an advancing mass of colder air

Synonyms:

cold front; polar front

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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)