frontispiece

About 1.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
2. noun The title page of a book.
3. noun A façade, especially an ornamental one.
4. noun A small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.
5. noun A person's face.
6. verb To supply with a frontispiece.

   The novel was frontispieced with a portrait of the author.

7. verb ↑ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
8. verb ↑ “frontispiece”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

Similar words

woodcut photogravure frontispice front matter foreword frontmatter forebook preface foreward front-page

Often followed by

to of and by in facing from the for

Word family

frontispieces