frontage

[ fruhn-tij ]

/ ˈfrʌn tɪdʒ /

the front of a building or lot.

the lineal extent of this front: a frontage of 200 feet.

the direction it faces: The house has an ocean frontage.

land abutting on a river, street, etc.: He was willing to pay the higher cost of a lake frontage.

the land between a building and the street, a body of water, etc.: He complained that the new sidewalk would decrease his frontage.

Origin of frontage

First recorded in 1615–25; front + -age

The monuments positively jostle and elbow each other for frontage upon the footways.

Certain Personal Matters |H. G. Wells
The chapel and old library which form the west side of this court, and also the frontage to the street, had been built in 1475.

Cambridge and its Story |Charles William Stubbs
The frontage is the Straits, with the mainland right opposite.

Adventures in New Guinea |James Chalmers
It was a curious old place, chiefly of wood, and had a great effigy of a polar bear on its frontage.

The Bath Road |Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

It has a frontage of 50 feet, is 31 deep, and has three doorways.

The American Egypt |Channing Arnold

frontage

/ (ˈfrʌntɪdʒ) /

the façade of a building or the front of a plot of ground

the extent of the front of a shop, plot of land, etc, esp along a street, river, etc

the direction in which a building faces a frontage on the river