1 the front of a building:
a classical facade
2 [usuallysing.] the way that sb/sth appears to be, which is different from the way sb/sth really is:
She managed to maintain a facade of indifference. * They seem happy together, but it's all a facade. * Squalor and poverty lay behind the city's glittering facade.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for facade is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is facade a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, facade is tagged as noun.
Does facade appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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