Face to face Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb involving close contact; confronting each other
    • the boy and the policeman suddenly came face-to-face at the corner
    • they spoke face to face

WordNet

Definitions
  1. . (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. "Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face." 1 Cor. xiii. 12. (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis à vis; opposed to back to back.

Webster 1913