frontage
the direction it faces: The house has an ocean frontage.
land abutting on a river, street, etc.: He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.
the land between a building and the street, a body of water, etc.: He complained that the new sidewalk would decrease his frontage.
Origin of frontage
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How to use frontage in a sentence
The 5.7-acre property has 400 linear feet of ocean frontage.
The property includes 4,000 feet of ocean frontage and a 12-bedroom Victorian home.
It has a frontage of one hundred feet on the Via Appia, and an extension in agro of two hundred and thirty feet.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowIt has a frontage of seventy-four feet on Main street, and is sixty-five feet deep.
It had a high wall frontage of about three hundred and fifty feet.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar Wallace
A hole was dug in the ground, with a frontage toward the wind.
The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour | George A. WarrenIt is a long log and frame building, situate on the south side of the road, with a porch extending along its entire frontage.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
British Dictionary definitions for frontage
/ (ˈfrʌntɪdʒ) /
the façade of a building or the front of a plot of ground
the extent of the front of a shop, plot of land, etc, esp along a street, river, etc
the direction in which a building faces: a frontage on the river
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