Facade

Quick meaning: Facade is a noun meaning (architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.

Meaning

(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
2. (figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
3. (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.

Example Sentences

Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• facades

Synonyms for facade

Depending on context, synonyms include face, front, frontage, appearance, cover, guise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frontage, wall, veneer, umbrella, glazing, cover.

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