frontage
Americannoun
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the front of a building or lot.
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the lineal extent of this front.
a frontage of 200 feet.
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the direction it faces.
The house has an ocean frontage.
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land abutting on a river, street, etc..
He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.
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the land between a building and the street, a body of water, etc..
He complained that the new sidewalk would decrease his frontage.
noun
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the façade of a building or the front of a plot of ground
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the extent of the front of a shop, plot of land, etc, esp along a street, river, etc
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the direction in which a building faces
a frontage on the river
Etymology
Origin of frontage
Example Sentences
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The tea room is temporarily closed until 7 October while filming takes place for Ludwig; its frontage has been transformed to resemble a bank, which it was before becoming a community venue.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The estate includes a roughly 16,000-square-foot Tuscan-style house with seven bedrooms and more than 500 feet of ocean frontage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The property spans 5,135 square feet with 70 feet of beach frontage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The waterfront estate on affluent La Gorce Island has a dock and 100 feet of frontage on Biscayne Bay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
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