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façade

façade is the alternative form of facade.

Meaning of facade

Noun

facade (plural facades)

  1. The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
    • 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.1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries
    Synonyms:
    face, front, frontage
  2. (broadly) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
  3. (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
  4. An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
    • Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 311

See all 5 meanings of facade

Forms of façade

pluralfaçades

Origin of façade

Unadapted borrowing from French façade.

Words formed from façade

Phrases with façade

Questions about façade

What is façade the alternative form of?
Façade is the alternative form of facade.

Words near façade in the dictionary

  1. fazzolets
  2. Fazzān
  3. Faà di Bruno's formula
  4. faâl
  5. façadal
  6. façade
  7. façade pattern
  8. façade patterns
  9. façades
  10. façadism
  11. façonné

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