frontage

[ fruhn-tij ]

noun

1. the front of a building or lot.
2. the lineal extent of this front:

   a frontage of 200 feet.

3. the direction it faces:

   The house has an ocean frontage.

4. land abutting on a river, street, etc.:

   He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.

5. the land between a building and the street, a body of water, etc.:

   He complained that the new sidewalk would decrease his frontage.

frontage

/ ˈfrʌntɪdʒ /

noun

1. the façade of a building or the front of a plot of ground
2. the extent of the front of a shop, plot of land, etc, esp along a street, river, etc
3. the direction in which a building faces

   a frontage on the river

Word History and Origins

Origin of frontage¹

First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age

Example Sentences

It spans 9.5 acres and includes a rare 300 feet of ocean frontage near El Pescador State Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

London's grey and angular Barbican Centre is now a sea of pink - its frontage covered in cloth that billows in the breeze as if dancing.

From BBC

During a recent tour of the work site, I watched as the Olive Street frontage was excavated and being lowered by about five feet.

From Los Angeles Times

“They had 150 feet of water frontage. It was a beautiful spot where no one bothered you.”

From Seattle Times

“We can have a giant storm and lose hundreds of feet of frontage. We can have serious flooding; we can lose boats and people. We can have a tsunami. Everybody likes to talk about resilience these days, but the South Beach community was resilient before it was a buzzword.”

From Seattle Times