What do you mean by facade?
1 : the front of a building also : any face of a building given special architectural treatment a museum’s east facade. 2 : a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect tried to preserve the facade of a happy marriage.
How do Americans pronounce facade?
Here are 4 tips that should help you perfect your pronunciation of ‘facade‘: Break ‘facade‘ down into sounds: [FUH] + [SAAD] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them. Record yourself saying ‘facade‘ in full sentences, then watch yourself and listen.
How do British people pronounce facade?
Can facade be pronounced differently?
Façade is different in that it was borrowed relatively recently, and is a rarer word than lemonade or renegade, and so is still pronounced close to the same way it is in French. Where it came from the word face, meaning “face” and pronounced [fas], which got -ade added to it to mean “the FACING side of a building.”