cold front

noun

: an advancing edge of a cold air mass

Examples of cold front in a Sentence

A cold front will move in tomorrow, bringing with it clear skies.

Recent Examples on the Web

Another cold front is expected to arrive in North Texas late Thursday, according to the weather service. —Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026

This outage comes on the heels of an arctic cold front that brought freezing rain, which posed a threat to power lines over the weekend. —Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 27 Jan. 2026

Another cold front late Thursday and Friday will bring temperatures near freezing Saturday afternoon, with morning lows in the teens to low 20s Saturday and Sunday. —Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2026

South Florida should remain chilly through the end of the workweek — if not through the weekend — thanks to a cold front, forecasters say. —Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cold front

• affront
• confront
• exeunt
• forefront
• lakefront
• manhunt
• sederunt
• battlefront
• oceanfront
• riverfront
• waterfront
• blunt

Kids Definition

cold front

noun

: an advancing edge of a cold air mass