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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The face of a building, especially the principal face.
  2. n. An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for geopolitical power struggles.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In architecture, a front view or elevation; the chief exterior face of a building, or any one of its principal faces if it has more than one: as, the façade of the Louvre; the façade of St. Peter's in Rome.
  2. n. In organ-building, same as prospect, 12.

Wiktionary

  1. n. architecture The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
  2. n. by extension The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.
  3. n. figuratively A deceptive outward appearance; a front.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Arch.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the face or front of a building
  2. n. a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia ("front"), from Latin facies ("face"); compare face. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Italian facciata, from faccia, face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faciēs; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. face
  1. frontage
  1. front
  1. cover
  1. appearance
  1. pretence
  1. show
  1. guise

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  1. deception
  1. misrepresentation
  1. deceit

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. portico
  2. edifice
  3. facades
  4. spire
  1. gateway
  2. demeanor
  3. terrace
  4. staircase
  1. pillar
  2. veneer
  3. archway
  4. exterior
  1. portal
  2. rampart
  3. vestibule
  4. turret
  1. courtyard
  2. porch
  3. battlements
  4. aisle
  1. fake

reverse dictionary (20)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. frontispiece
  2. façade
  3. cedilla
  4. prospect
  1. tetrastyle in antis
  2. faciate
  3. marbled
  4. pediment
  1. breathless-shankar
  2. attic
  3. return
  4. Walton
  1. crescent
  2. diacritic
  3. face
  4. frontal
  1. veneer
  2. amortizement
  3. solid
  4. reface

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