frontage
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/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/
Definition of frontage
7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
“Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.”
“Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]”
“BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
“Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.”
“Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]”
“BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.”
- (countable, uncountable)The land between a property and the street.
- (countable, uncountable)The length of a property along a street.
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(countable, uncountable)Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
“And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]”
“It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.”
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(countable, uncountable)The front part generally.
“[…] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.”
“War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.”
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(countable, informal, uncountable)A woman's breasts.
“"Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?" Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."”
“I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.”
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(countable, uncountable)a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.
“Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.”
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Etymology
From front + -age.
Words you can make from frontage
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2 words6-letter words
13 words5-letter words
53 words- FAGOT 9 pts
- FORGE 9 pts
- GANEF 9 pts
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4-letter words
81 words- FANG 8 pts
- FRAG 8 pts
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- AFRO 7 pts
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3-letter words
50 words- FAG 7 pts
- FOG 7 pts
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