facade
/fəˈsɑ(ː)d/
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obsolete/fəˈseɪd/
facade noun: the face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
Noun
facade (plural facades)
- 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
- 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.1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages
- The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
- A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
- Synonyms:
- appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence, Potemkin village
- 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
Verb
facade (third-person singular simple present facades, present participle facading, simple past and past participle facaded)
- To cover or disguise an outward appearance.
- Una was not happy in that small and self-immured company, already bound together by its big year on Broadway. But she façaded her unrest with a determination to improve her mind.1943, Arthur Stringer, Star in a Mist, A Novel, page 180
- The parks observed at the entrance, with their fountains and benches and circular drives, were no "Potemkin's villages" facading the lanscape for official visits.1960, Press and Information Office, Embassy of the Republic of Viet-Nam, “The Agrovilles: A New Prospect In Viet Nam”, in News from Viet-Nam, volume 6, number 7, page 5
facade meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
facade in Tamil
- முகப்பு, கட்ட முகப்பு, கட்டட முகப்பு, முன்முகப்பு
facade in Urdu
- آگا
facade in Bengali
- ভবনের সম্মুখভাগ
facade in Kannada
- ಮುಂಬದಿ, ತೋರಿಕೆಯ ಹೊರನೋಟ, ಮುಂಭಾಗ, ಮುಂಭಾಗದ ನೋಟ, ತೋರಿಕೆ, ಸುಳ್ಳು
More languagesFewer languages
- facade in Punjabi
- متھا matthā, چہرہ cihrah
- facade in Gujarati
- રવેશ
- facade in Tagalog
- dayag, karayagan
- facade in Arabic
- وَاجِهَة wājiha
- facade in Malay
- muka bangunan, zahirnya
- facade in Indonesian
- depan hadapan, muka, fasad, muka bangunan
- facade in Persian
- نما namâ
Examples of facade in a sentence
- 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.2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi, editor, Lone Star Law, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 179:
- In fantasy he facades a happy childhood, but in reality it was extremely lonely, and it would appear that he had probably been breast fed through a pair of falsies.1980, LA Law Library, California, Court of Appeal (1st Appellate District), Records and Briefs, 2CRIM40517, Petition for Writ, page 6:
- Nancy is not that tired and exhausted, yet she facades her fatigue to escape from this silly revision of the concepts.2021, Abhi, The BAG-G-AGE:
- She facades her toughness, "You both are grounded.2023, Lavina Chhabra, The Flawed Ink, page 45:
Synonyms of facade
Forms of facade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | facades |
| alternative form | façade |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | facades |
| present participle | facading |
| past participle | facaded |
| past | facaded |
Origin of facade
Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.
Words formed from facade
Phrases with facade
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Questions about facade
- What does facade mean?
- Facade means the face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
- What is facade in Tamil?
- Facade in Tamil is முகப்பு, கட்ட முகப்பு, கட்டட முகப்பு. See Facade meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use facade in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is facade?
- Facade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce facade?
- Facade is pronounced /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/.
- What is the plural of facade?
- The plural of facade is facades.
Words near facade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: facade (page history and authors); facade (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); facade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Facade (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); facade (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); متھا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); facade (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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