shopfront
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈʃɑːpfrʌnt/
- UK
:
fachada de la tienda
- Lawyers' offices reveal the truth of their work: Rosemary's was a plain, shopfront firm, its door open for things as mundane but important as wills, the sale of property, divorces, and insurance claims.
Examples
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As I walked through the town, I admired the unique designs of each shopfront lining the street.
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They'd lived in a roach-infested apartment upstairs from a shopfront a few blocks from the campus.
Fiction book (1995) -
Walker Evans, “Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935.
Academic text (2017) -
They've created shopfronts and in the lessons the children produce things, you know, in the craft lessons and art lessons, all sorts of lessons that they then, you know, sell.
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The first of these is the woman pictured at the doorway to the New Orleans barbershop in "Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935" (Figure 8).
Academic text (2017) -
The bright shopfront displayed colorful clothes that attracted many passers-by.
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The bakery's shopfront was decorated with festive lights, making it hard to resist going in.
Synonyms
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1.0
The part of something that faces forward toward a person or entrance
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2.1
The front of a shop facing the street with display windows
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2.0
A front window of a shop that shows goods to people passing by
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5.8
The front of a building that faces a street, river, or park
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3.0
A large front shop window that shows goods to attract customers
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3.1
A window at the front of a shop that shows goods to attract people
A window at the front of a shop that shows goods for sale
Antonyms
How Noticeable
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3.2
- UK
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shopfront is simply the two words shop and front joined together. Front here means the 'face' of a building, so a shopfront is the 'face' of a shop where goods are shown to people walking by.