storefront
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈstɔːrfrʌnt/
- US
:
fachada de la tienda
- The new restaurant's storefront features large windows that attract passers-by.
- a storefront window
- houses and storefronts
- a storefront church
They're boarding up the building, the the storefronts downtown.
- They're boarding up the building, the the storefronts downtown.
- Like you show up to the storefront pretending that they're selling jeans.
- But we did it and we filled our small storefront space and spilled out a little bit.
- You use that car to drive through a storefront, usually a pot shop or a drugstore.
- That's like a a crucial part of it, keeping costs low and then again, not having the retail storefront as well.
- And I looked across the street and I saw that there was a a guy standing on the top of a ladder painting the awning of his storefront.
- It's like, bro, this is this is a storefront, right?
- I don't know what street it's on, but it's like a storefront.
- They, you have a storefront, you know, the campaign and but you don't see any blacks in there because they're very worried about the Southern white vote.
Examples
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Seven or eight people were in the storefront, a couple of them drumming on a table.
Fiction book (1995) -
In 2004, sixty furniture storefronts were located along the main road.
Academic text (2004) -
It's just an empty storefront on a bad block.
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In the middle of all of it one of my shots went wide, straight through a storefront window.
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In 2004, furniture was produced throughout the town, but storefront sales were limited to the principal road.
Academic text (2004) -
Yesterday, l signed a contract to buy three storefronts on Main Street.
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Now I notice a smoky storefront window with people moving behind it.
Fiction book (1994) -
You can still see the cobblestone streets and the storefronts down here.
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Before long, Stolz left to start a law firm in a storefront across from the courthouse.
Academic text (1996) -
Dr. Zhang's Earthly Remedies occupies a storefront office between a kosher butcher shop and a taxidermist's.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.0
The part of something that faces forward toward a person or entrance
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5.8
The front of a building that faces a street, river, or park
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2.5
The front of a shop with windows that show things to people walking by
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Storefront is made of store ('shop') and front ('the front part' or 'face'). It names the face of a shop with windows and signs that people see from the street, so a storefront is the part of a store you see from outside.