frontage

American  

[fruhn-tij] / ˈfrʌn tɪdʒ /

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.

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frontage British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of frontage

First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age

Example Sentences

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frontage

I have beautiful memories of this stunning part of Norfolk, with its reed beds, grazing marshes, woodland area and river frontage, along with an abundance of birds and other wildlife.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

After Route 66 was decommissioned as a highway in 1985, about 85% of the old route remained in use, often as small-town thoroughfares, country highways and frontage roads alongside Interstate 40.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

The property, which has 200 feet of frontage on the Atlantic, has a 2,100-square-foot main house and a smaller guesthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Since then the house has been maintained and improved over decades, including an updated 18th Century frontage.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

The crowd obscured what was happening, but suddenly the rotten frontage of a building gave way and collapsed.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi