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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine.
  • n. Architecture A façade, especially an ornamental façade.
  • n. Architecture A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window.
  • n. Archaic A title page.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
  • n. The title page of a book.
  • n. A façade, especially an ornamental one.
  • n. A small pediment of which is ornamental, especially on the top of a window or door.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The principal front of a building.
  • n. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which is seen in front, or which directly presents itself to the eye.
  • n. A print or engraving placed in front of the title of a book.
  • To furnish with a frontispiece.
  • To use as a frontispiece: as, to frontispiece a map.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. front illustration facing the title page of a book
  • n. an ornamental facade
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    front    frontage    façade    frontal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    photogravure    introd    lithograph    engraving    vignette