different between frontage vs facade

English

Etymology

front +? -age

Noun

frontage (countable and uncountable, plural frontages)

1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter III, p. 41, [1]

     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.

   • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, 1983, Chapter I, p. 5,

     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.

2. The land between a property and the street.
3. The length of a property along a street.
4. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
   • 1939, Time, 12 June, 1939, [2]

     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 […]

   • 2016, The Chronicle Herald, 25 May, 2016, [3]

     It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.

5. The front part generally.
   • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; Bartleby.com, 1999, [4]

     […] 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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18, [5]

     War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

Coordinate terms

• facade

Derived terms

• frontage road

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• façade (French spelling with the cedilla)

Etymology

From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faci?s (“face”); compare face.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /f??sa?d/
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f??s??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

facade (plural facades)

1. (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
   • 1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries

     In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were […] ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.

   • 1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages

     Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.

   • The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth?; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

   • 2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi (ed.), Lone Star Law,^[1] Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, page 179,

     Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.

2. (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
3. (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front.
4. (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.

Synonyms

• (face of a building): face, front, frontage
• (deceptive outward appearance): appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence, show

Coordinate terms

• (front of a building): frontage
• (deceptive appearance): See Thesaurus:fake

Related terms

• facade pattern

Translations

Further reading

• facade at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “facade”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Danish

Etymology

From French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faci?s (“face”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fa?sæ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

facade c (singular definite facaden, plural indefinite facader)

1. façade

Inflection