storefront

American  

[stawr-fruhnt, stohr-] / ˈstɔrˌfrʌnt, ˈstoʊr- /

noun

• storefronts
  plural

1. the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.

2. a store or other establishment that has frontage on a street or thoroughfare.

   After the fire the family took shelter temporarily in an abandoned storefront.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the frontage of a store, especially the display windows.

   a storefront sign.

2. located or operating in a storelike area, room, or set of rooms fronting on a street.

   a storefront community center.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• storefronts
  plural

Etymology

Origin of storefront

First recorded in 1935–40; store + front

Example Sentences

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Within its sprawl, each adumbrated alley and plate-glass storefront could hold an entire world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

On my first trip to a small storefront in Chinatown, I spent about $20 to play nine times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Last week, Sony announced it would stop manufacturing discs for all new PlayStation games released after January 2028, making its branded digital storefront the default retail outpost for all console owners going forward.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Some of the company’s biggest rivals are Sony’s PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and Steam, the digital storefront for PC games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

He gave me directions and a few minutes later I pulled into the parking lot of a small storefront on the town’s Main Street.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Creating housing on top of storefronts “is presumably because it’s the only way to get money.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

They form webs of businesses without storefronts that are owned by other businesses, passing vast sums of money back and forth and even overseas with minimal oversight.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Shuttered storefronts lined Calle Real, the city's main commercial artery, where the usual flow of shoppers and residents had been replaced by scores of migrants milling around the streets.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

It marks a massive scale-up for the German discounter, which first entered the US in 1976 and has steadily grown its footprint to nearly 2,800 storefronts.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The square itself is ringed with run-down storefronts, most of which are abandoned.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins