Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of columns placed at regular intervals.
- noun A structure composed of columns placed at regular intervals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, any series or range of columns placed at certain intervals, called intercolumniations, from one another, such intervals varying according to the requirements of art and utility, and of the order employed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
series ofcolumns at regularintervals . - noun
peristyle - noun
portico ,stoa
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns
- noun structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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SI's editors must have said, "No a colonnade is a row of columns -- you know, something architectural-like."
Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.
Heart of Darwin 2008
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I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.
Heart of Darwin 2008
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I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.
Heart of Darwin 2008
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Around the frieze above the colonnade are the names of 44 battles from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War.
Arlington cemetery urns turn up on auction block, but how'd they get there? Christian Davenport 2011
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Around the frieze above the colonnade are the names of 44 battles from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War.
Arlington cemetery urns turn up on auction block, but how'd they get there? Christian Davenport 2011
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Around the frieze above the colonnade are the names of 44 battles from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War.
Arlington cemetery urns turn up on auction block, but how'd they get there? Christian Davenport 2011
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But, here, amazingly, Wolf, we still have power, our cell phones still working, although we must say, on the skylight of what I would call the colonnade, they have been crashing within the last half-hour.
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The western colonnade, which is by far the best preserved, has been examined by two trenches, while in 2006 a sounding within the shops behind the actual colonnade was executed.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 2 2003
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Surmounting each arch of the colonnade is a small dome: in all there are a hundred and twenty, and at different points arise seven minarets, dating from various epochs, and of somewhat varying altitudes and architecture.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
vendingmachine commented on the word colonnade
Thankfully, not a beverage.
June 20, 2016
bilby commented on the word colonnade
Have a bowel of mixed bean soup instead, vendingmachine.
June 20, 2016