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Definition of Frontage

1. Noun. The extent of land abutting on a street or water.

2. Noun. The direction in which something (such as a building) faces.

3. Noun. The face or front of a building.

Definition of Frontage

1. n. The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Definition of Frontage

1. Noun. The front part of a property that faces the street ¹

2. Noun. The land between a property and the street ¹

3. Noun. The length of a property along a street ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frontage

1. the front of a building or lot [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frontage

front room front rooms front row front runner front runners front running front slash front teeth front tooth front vowel

front wall front walls front yard front yards frontad frontage (current term) frontage road frontage roads frontager frontagers

frontages frontal frontal angle of parietal bone frontal area frontal artery frontal belly of occipitofrontalis muscle frontal bone frontal border frontal border of parietal bone frontal border of sphenoid bone

Literary usage of Frontage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Law of Public Corporations, Including Municipal by Charles Fisk Beach (1893)
"The frontage rule.— "When the property consists of lots of substantially equal depth abutting a local improvement and there is nothing in the nature and ..."

2. The Principles of the Law of Public Corporations by Charles Burke Elliott (1898)
"The frontage rule.— The apportionment of benefits according to what is known as the ... Under it the line of frontage is taken as the most practical test of ..."

3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"frontage. — frontage to the Sea and Rivers ... frontage, is where the grounds of any man do join with the brow or front thereof to the SEA, or to Great or ..."

4. Tactics by William Balck (1915)
"From a consideration of the foregoing, it appears that the maximum frontage is justifiable, when a force whose flanks are secure, occupies a position ..."

5. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"street be not greater than 60% of the length of auch street frontage of such part of ... Such frontage length of auch structure at any given level shall be ..."

6. The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria: With Notes on the Modes by Robert Brough Smyth (1869)
"Regulations known as " frontage Regulations " were framed by the local court, ... A lead to which frontage regulations were applicable was termed a ..."

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