frontage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The land between a property and the street. countable,uncountable
  3. The length of a property along a street. countable,uncountable
  4. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water. countable,uncountable
    — 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 […]
  5. The front part generally. countable,uncountable
    — […] 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.
  6. A woman's breasts. countable,informal,uncountable
    — "Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?" Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."
  7. a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality. countable,uncountable
    — Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.

词形变化

frontages plural

词汇关系

近义词
breasts
衍生词
frontager frontage road waterfrontage
并列词
facade

词源

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.
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