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- Dictionaryfacade/fəˈsɑːd/
noun
- 1. the principal front of a building, that faces on to a street or open space: "the house has a half-timbered facade" Similar
- 2. a deceptive outward appearance: "her flawless public facade masked private despair" Similar
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FAÇADE definition: 1. the front of a building, especially a large or attractive building: 2. a false appearance that…. Learn more.
The meaning of FACADE is the front of a building; also : any face of a building given special architectural treatment. How to use facade in a sentence. A Brief History of Facade
A facade is the front of a building, or a kind of front people put up emotionally. If you're mad but acting happy, you're putting up a facade. This word has to do with the outer layer of something. One sense has to do with the front or outside of a building.
A facade is an outward appearance which is deliberately false and gives you a wrong impression about someone or something. They hid the troubles plaguing their marriage behind a facade of family togetherness.
Facade is used literally to describe a decorative, showy, or onrate piece of architecture that frames the front of a building, as in The architect who designed this building used a showy facade on it to help it stand out from nearby buildings.
FACADE meaning: 1 : the front of a building; 2 : a way of behaving or appearing that gives other people a false idea of your true feelings or situation.
facade noun [C] (BUILDING) the front of a large building: the gallery's elegant 18th century facade. (Definition of facade from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of facade noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
façade. noun. 1. front, face, exterior, frontage the façade of the building. 2. show, front, appearance, mask, exterior, guise, pretence, veneer, semblance They hid the troubles plaguing their marriage behind a façade of family togetherness.
1. The face of a building, especially the principal face. 2. An artificial or deceptive front: ideological slogans that were a façade for power struggles. [French, from Italian facciata, from faccia, face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faciēs; see dhē- in Indo-European roots .]
