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

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg