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frontage

frontage

5 5.8
The front of a building that faces a street, river, or park
  • noun
  • /ˈfrʌntɪdʒ/
translation icon : fachada
  • The office building's frontage faces a busy street, providing excellent visibility.
  • road frontage
  • river frontage
  • street frontage

Examples

  • They landscaped the frontage of their house to make it more appealing to visitors.

  • -Charles, can we get our minds off the double frontage with the view and onto the French real estate?

  • "We like being on this side, but on the east side of the frontage road, the traffic is higher.

    Blog text (22)
  • Once we turned on the frontage road, it helped, and the wind shifted.

    Blog text (19)
  • This system allows relatively equal distribution of river frontage and various soil types for each lot.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The permit fee is $100 plus $10 per 100 feet of frontage.

    Blog text (3)
  • Also, retail or service establishments were required to occupy at least half of the building frontage along the space.

    Academic text (2001)
  • You have a frontage here on the Malecon in this park, which is very powerful, and then a lot of this is going to be up for grabs in terms of what you do with it.

  • I have agreed, on behalf of the El Monaco, to lease at no cost some road frontage to the endeavor, which should coincidentally drive heavy tourist traffic right to our door.

  • You have to turn around—or back down—go half a mile up the frontage road to a gate—then up the service road.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

front
vsfrontage
1.0

The part of something that faces forward toward a person or entrance

is the part of a property or building that faces a street or space
face
vsfrontage
349 1.0

The main front surface of an object or tool

is specifically the property length that borders a street, river, or open area
storefront
vsfrontage
  • US
38 2.1

The front of a shop facing the street with display windows

applies more broadly to any property side bordering public ways or open areas
facade
vsfrontage
26 6.3

The front of a building that is often decorated or impressive

is a general property front, not focused on decoration or impressiveness
beachfront
vsfrontage
20 3.3

A strip of land by the beach with shops, hotels or parks

includes seaside cases but also property fronts that face streets or open areas
riverfront
vsfrontage
12 3.1

Land beside a river with parks, shops or homes

can mean this river edge but also any property face next to streets or spaces
oceanfront
vsfrontage
  • US
8 3.3

Land or property that faces the ocean

is a broader term that also applies to non-seaside property faces
shorefront
vsfrontage
1 3.6

Land at the edge of a lake or the sea

covers this water edge too but also broader property fronts on streets or spaces
shopfront
vsfrontage
  • UK
1 2.5

The front of a shop with windows that show things to people walking by

is used for any property frontage, not only retail display fronts
frontal
vsfrontage
6.0

The front part or face of a building

uses the same front idea but highlights property boundary along a street or space
forepart
vsfrontage
  • Archaic
7.5

The front part of a thing, animal, or building

restricts this front idea to a property side facing a public area

Antonyms

77 5.1

To have its rear facing another place

Compounds

2 4.0

A local street beside a highway that gives access to shops and houses

How Linear

ribbon development
  • Jargon
7.4
frontage
5 5.8
clustered
4.1
scattered
1 3.5

Surface Forms

frontage singular
frontages plural

Morphology

frontage = front (semi-transparent) = front + age

The word is formed from 'front' plus '-age', but the specific sense of the building or property front is only partly predictable from the suffix.

Etymology

The word frontage comes from the simple word front, which means 'face' or the forward side of something. So, think of a building's face that looks onto a street — the length of that face along the road is its frontage.