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

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

However, his second home is situated on a plum corner lot that offers private water frontage on two sides, directly on the edge of the Biscayne Bay.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi