frontage

[ fruhn-tij ]
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noun
  1. the front of a building or lot.

  2. the lineal extent of this front: a frontage of 200 feet.

  1. the direction it faces: The house has an ocean frontage.

  2. land abutting on a river, street, etc.: He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.

  3. 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

1
First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age

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How to use frontage in a sentence

  • A hole was dug in the ground, with a frontage toward the wind.

  • It 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

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

  1. the direction in which a building faces: a frontage on the river

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