facing pages

Questions about facing pages

What does facing pages mean?

facing pages means "two facing pages of a book or other publication".

What is another word for facing pages?

Close synonyms include spread, spread head, spreadhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facing pages a common word?

facing pages is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.