Frontage Meaning
/ˈfɹʌn.tɪd͡ʒ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe front part of a property or building that faces the street.
nounThe land between a property and the street.
Sentence Examples
She's got ample frontage.
Frontage roads are universal in Texas.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The building's ____ faced the busy street, so it attracted many customers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The store had a wide ____ along the main street, which made it very visible to anyone walking past.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English front Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English frontage From front + -age.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter III, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
"Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]"
— 1973, John Larkins, Australian Pubs, page 173:
"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."
— 1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter I, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 5:
"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 […]"
— 1939 June 12, Time:
"It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality."
— 2016 May 25, The Chronicle Herald:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The building's ____ faced the busy street, so it attracted many customers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The store had a wide ____ along the main street, which made it very visible to anyone walking past.