facade
/fə:sɑ:d/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A deceptive outward appearance: A superficial or false front that conceals a less pleasant reality.
- The principal front of a building: The face or front wall of a structure, often architecturally designed.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Deceptive appearance):
- His cheerful manner is just a facade to hide his sadness.
- The company's friendly facade crumbled when the scandal was exposed.
- Noun (Building front):
- The historic building's stone facade was beautifully restored.
- The architect designed a glass facade for the new office tower.
Advanced Usage
- "Maintain a facade": To consciously keep up a false appearance.
- She maintained a facade of confidence during the difficult negotiations.
- "Behind the facade": Referring to the reality hidden by the outward appearance.
- Behind the elegant facade of the mansion, there was great financial distress.
Variants and Related Words
- Facadism (n): An architectural practice where only the facade of a building is preserved while the interior is rebuilt.
- The project involved facadism, keeping the old brick front but constructing a modern interior.
- Facade pattern (n): A design pattern in software engineering that provides a simplified interface to a complex system.
Synonyms
- Pretense: An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true.
- Front: A person or organization serving as a cover for subversive or illegal activities; also, the forward-facing side.
- Exterior: The outer surface or structure of something.
Related Phrases
- "Put up a facade": To create a deceptive outward show.
- He put up a facade of indifference, but he was deeply hurt.
Related Idioms
- A veneer of respectability: A superficial appearance of being proper and respectable.
- The charity was a veneer of respectability for their illegal operations. (This idiom shares a similar conceptual meaning of a deceptive surface.)
Noun
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
- the face or front of a building