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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the extent of land abutting on a street or water
2: the direction in which something (such as a building) faces
3: the face or front of a building [syn: facade, frontage, frontal]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1622 1. a. a piece of land that lies adjacent (as to a street or the ocean) b. the land between the front of a building and the street c. the length of a frontage 2. the act or fact of facing a given way 3. the front side of a building

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the front of a building. 2 a land abutting on a street or on water. b the land between the front of a building and the road. 3 extent of front (a shop with little frontage). 4 a the way a thing faces. b outlook. Phrases and idioms: frontage road US a service road. Derivatives: frontager n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frontage Front"age, n. The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frontages) A frontage of a building is a wall which faces a public place such as a street or a river. The restaurant has a river frontage. N-COUNT: also no det

Moby Thesaurus

anteriority, aspect, attitude, azimuth, bearing, bearings, bold front, brave face, brave front, celestial navigation, dead reckoning, display, exposure, facade, face, facet, facia, fix, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, head, heading, lap, lay, lie, line of position, obverse, orientation, pilotage, position, position line, preface, prefix, priority, proscenium, radio bearing, set, window dressing