frontage

[fruhn-tij]

noun

1. the front of a building or lot.

2. the lineal extent of this front.

   a frontage of 200 feet.

3. the direction it faces.

   The house has an ocean frontage.

4. land abutting on a river, street, etc..

   He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.

5. the land between a building and the street, a body of water, etc..

   He complained that the new sidewalk would decrease his frontage.

frontage

/ ˈfrʌntɪdʒ /

noun

1. the façade of a building or the front of a plot of ground

2. the extent of the front of a shop, plot of land, etc, esp along a street, river, etc

3. the direction in which a building faces

   a frontage on the river

Word History and Origins

Origin of frontage¹

First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age

Example Sentences

She said she repainted the frontage to help her salon stand out and the pink door had helped bring in customers.

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"I had a pristine frontage of a middle-class home - no one thought it could happen behind those doors, but it did."

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Under the council's original regeneration plan, the frontage would have been retained and the site developed into an energy centre, providing low emission heating.

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London's grey and angular Barbican Centre is now a sea of pink - its frontage covered in cloth that billows in the breeze as if dancing.

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During a recent tour of the work site, I watched as the Olive Street frontage was excavated and being lowered by about five feet.

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