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

The property is a part of the private neighborhood known as Bay Colony and sits on a cul-de-sac with 170 feet of water frontage.

Read more on MarketWatch

The project also would redesign the frontage along Anaheim and Gaffey streets to make walking along them more appealing.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Though residences lack direct frontage on Lake Tahoe—typically the area’s priciest real estate—Martis Camp provides a Tom Fazio-designed golf course and a members-only chairlift to ski terrain at Northstar California Resort.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

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

Read more on BBC

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

Read more on BBC