What does "frontage" mean?
The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
Frontage
/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
- Grammar: frontage is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: facade, anteriority, aspect, attitude.
- Useful contrasts: back, back boundary, rear.
- Usage evidence: Dogs seem to be getting smarter every year. I remember a farm dog long ago that tried to bite the tires of every pickup truck that drove past on the frontage road. Nowadays dogs never look up from their iPads. Yes, there's an occasional licking of their balls, but then it's back to the iPad.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The front part of a property or building that faces the street. countable, uncountable
"Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it."
- 2 the face or front of a building wordnet
- 3 The land between a property and the street. countable, uncountable
- 4 the extent of land abutting on a street or water wordnet
- 5 The length of a property along a street. countable, uncountable
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- 6 the direction in which something (such as a building) faces wordnet
- 7 Property or territory adjacent to a body of water. countable, uncountable
"And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]"
- 8 The front part generally. countable, uncountable
"[…] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage."
- 9 A woman's breasts. countable, informal, uncountable
""Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?" Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste.""
- 10 a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality. countable, uncountable
"Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths."
Example
"Dogs seem to be getting smarter every year. I remember a farm dog long ago that tried to bite the tires of every pickup truck that drove past on the frontage road. Nowadays dogs never look up from their iPads. Yes, there's an occasional licking of their balls, but then it's back to the iPad."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "frontage"?
Common synonyms include: facade, anteriority, aspect, attitude, azimuth, bearing.
How do you use "frontage" in a sentence?
Dogs seem to be getting smarter every year. I remember a farm dog long ago that tried to bite the tires of every pickup truck that drove past on the frontage road. Nowadays dogs never look up from their iPads. Yes, there's an occasional licking of their balls, but then it's back to the iPad.
How do you pronounce "frontage"?
Pronounced /ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
From front + -age.