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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of frontage1

First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age
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Example Sentences

The 5.7-acre property has 400 linear feet of ocean frontage.

The property includes 4,000 feet of ocean frontage and a 12-bedroom Victorian home.

It has a frontage of one hundred feet on the Via Appia, and an extension in agro of two hundred and thirty feet.

It has a frontage of seventy-four feet on Main street, and is sixty-five feet deep.

It had a high wall frontage of about three hundred and fifty feet.

A hole was dug in the ground, with a frontage toward the wind.

It is a long log and frame building, situate on the south side of the road, with a porch extending along its entire frontage.

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