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

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Etymology

Origin of storefront

First recorded in 1935–40; store + front

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Example Sentences

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Hervé Denis, a 56-year-old shopkeeper, peered through the shattered storefront of his friend’s motorcycle-equipment store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

Their storefront may be the only place in Los Angeles County that serves tuba, which they import frozen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The office used to be a vacant storefront.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

With a population of about 2,400, it could pass for any number of prairie towns: modest houses and churches, mostly boarded-up storefronts, and a grain elevator towering above everything.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Warm jazz fills the air as crews work on new storefronts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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storefronts lined Calle Real, the city's main commercial artery, where the usual flow of shoppers and residents had been replaced by scores of migrants milling around the streets.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

Bright colored lights sparkled from the trees, while storefronts competed with one another to be the most festive with their decorations.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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