the home front

noun

: the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country

During the war we had to keep up morale on the home front.

Examples of the home front in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Americans in the service and on the home front were proud to be Americans, even those at home planting victory gardens to grow food. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026

As the setup cycles through cinematic tropes and makes its way to a predictable catfight over who’s the true domestic goddess, Banks is terrific at communicating Carol’s wordless rage, her workplace competitiveness having shifted to the home front. —Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026

So if the home front is holding up as well as can be expected, how about the broader war effort? —Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026

At the outset, Israel’s military planners had projected more than 400 casualties on the home front from Iranian ballistic and drone attacks; in the end, there were only 28. —Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for the home front

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