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storefront

storefront noun: the side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.

storefront: the side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows
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Noun

storefront (plural storefronts)

  1. The side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.
    Synonyms:
    shopfront
  2. (broadly) An e-commerce website offering goods or services to the public.
    • Brands are now able to set up storefronts to sell within Facebook and Instagram, where they were previously relegated to advertising for outside sales channels.2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Examples of storefront in a sentence

  • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
  • We run our operation from a storefront.
  • Every other storefront seems to be a coffee shop, a gelato shop, or a med spa.

All 13 example sentences with storefront

Synonyms of storefront

Forms of storefront

pluralstorefronts

Plural of storefront: storefronts

Origin of storefront

From store + front.

Words formed from storefront

Phrases with storefront

Questions about storefront

What does storefront mean?
Storefront means the side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.
What part of speech is storefront?
Storefront is a noun.
What is the plural of storefront?
The plural of storefront is storefronts.

Words near storefront in the dictionary

  1. stored procedures
  2. stored up
  3. stored-value card
  4. storeen
  5. storeens
  6. storefront
  7. storefront church
  8. storefront churches
  9. storefronts
  10. storeful
  11. storefuls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storefront (page history and authors). 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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