storefront

noun

store·front | \ˈstȯr-ˌfrənt

Definition of storefront

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : the front side of a store or store building facing a street

2 : a building, room, or suite of rooms having a storefront

storefront

adjective

Definition of storefront (Entry 2 of 2)

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a storefront church a storefront evangelist

2 : occupying a room or suite of rooms in a store building at street level and immediately behind a storefront a storefront school

3 : of, relating to, or being outreach professional services storefront lawyers a storefront clinic

Examples of storefront in a Sentence

Noun

He rented a storefront on Main Street.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Tucked under a bustling underpass in Brooklyn, there’s a thin storefront sandwiched between two run-of-the-mill apartment buildings. — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, "Brooklyn’s Bar Beau Is the Latest Hidden Hotspot You Need to Visit," 24 Nov. 2018 In 1987, McDonald was directing a raid on a Chinatown storefront that was dealing in fake Rolexes when she was attacked by a man wielding a metal pipe. — Catherine Hong, Town & Country, "An Expert on Counterfeit HandBags Reveals How You Can Always Spot the Fakes," 17 Sep. 2018 The requests grew, and her catering business evolved in 2014 into a Mountain View storefront called Zareen’s. — Louis Hansen, The Seattle Times, "One way to keep food-service workers in pricey places: Pay their rent," 17 Aug. 2018 Italianate in style and faced with orange brick, the rowhouse offered a first-floor storefront with bedrooms above for Jacob and his wife, Maria, two sons, a daughter and boarder, all recorded in the 1910 census. — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, "Collapse: The rise and deadly fall of a Baltimore rowhouse," 12 July 2018 The researchers said Amazon allowed R.A.C. Records, a distributor of racist music, T-shirts, flags and the white-power magazine Resistance, to maintain a storefront with more than 200 items for sale. — Tracy Jan, latimes.com, "Amazon continues to profit from the sale of white-supremacist propaganda, report says," 6 July 2018 Shrago, who originally started the museum as traveling exhibits in 1986 and later operated out of a Plantation storefront, is married to former Broward Judge Jay Spechler. — Larry Barszewski, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Children's art museum can't have nude exhibits in new county deal," 12 June 2018 This is an uncertain time for a storefront that seems to have remained frozen in time—or more accurately, covered in dust—for several decades. — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, "Will the music finally stop at Recycled Records in Springfield?," 30 May 2018 In time, an agent found the perfect building: a home attached to a vacant storefront that had once been the site of a dental office. — Tom Hallman Jr., OregonLive.com, "End of a story for a Hawthorne Boulevard bookstore: Tom Hallman," 27 May 2018

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