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Definition: Veranda |
VerandaNoun1. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veranda" was first used: 1711. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | An open-air enclosure often used as a spoon-holder. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of being on a veranda, denotes that you are to be successful in some affair which is giving you anxiety. For a young woman to be with her lover on a veranda, denotes her early and happy marriage. To see an old veranda, denotes the decline of hopes, and disappointment in business and love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: VerandaSynonyms: gallery (n), verandah (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Veranda |
| English words defined with "veranda": Lanai. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "veranda": veranda net. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veranda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (porch, veranda, verandah), Dutch (porch, veranda), German (patio, Piazza, porch, veranda, verandah), Hungarian (porch, porchway, stoop, veranda, verandah), Italian (porch, veranda, verandah), Papiamen (porch, veranda), Serbo-Croatian (porch, veranda), Spanish (veranda, verandah), Swedish (Piazza, porch, veranda, verandah), Turkish (patio, porch, veranda, verandah). |
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Screenplays | Yesterday, in my mind's eye, I saw four women standing on a veranda in white, gauzy dresses and straw-colored hats. (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen) I was thinking later, you could kiss me on the veranda. (Three Amigos!; writing credit: Steve Martin; Lorne Michaels) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carmen's Veranda (1944) Veranda för en tenor (1998) | |
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![]() | Veranda and doorway. Photograph by L.D. Andrew, May 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, GA,108-COLM,4-1) Begun in 1859 for the wealthy Scottish immigrant James A. Rankin but not completed until after the Civil War, this town house combines different building materials and details from a number of historical architectural styles. The ironwork shown here on the veranda is based on the Gothic architecture of medieval England and France. The Corinthian columns of the doorway behind it, on the other hand, call to mind the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. The Rankin House is an excellent example of Eclecticism architecture, the term used to describe the mixing of different styles and materials in buildings.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 20, Chatel Guyon, France. : Pre-war view of the veranda of the main surgical building.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | North veranda, Churchill Hall, Stamford, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The North veranda, Manhansett [i.e. Manhanset] House, Shelter Island, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | On the veranda, Detroit Boat Club, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Hotel Green, east building, from veranda of west building, Pasadena, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | West veranda, Hotel Champlain, Bluff Point, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Southern lady of the old school on the veranda of the "Big House" of the Wray Plantation, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Harriman house. Brick veranda at Harriman house.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Grand View, veranda.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The full renovation included the installation of wood flooring, new pipes, wood frame windows, walls, a kitchen with wooden cabinets, a veranda, and a complete redo of the two bathrooms. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Veranda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Veranda" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 128 | 28,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "veranda": veranda net. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "veranda": veranda-ed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
veranda | 344 |
veranda magazine | 51 |
la veranda | 15 |
beach myrtle veranda | 15 |
veranda jardin | 12 |
apartment veranda | 10 |
bed breakfast veranda | 7 |
restaurant veranda | 7 |
veranda house | 6 |
veranda design | 6 |
build a veranda | 6 |
hotel veranda | 5 |
beach club veranda | 5 |
porch veranda | 5 |
beach myrtle north veranda | 5 |
beach manhattan veranda | 5 |
la philadelphia veranda | 5 |
veranda idea | 4 |
la restaurant veranda | 4 |
house nantucket veranda | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veranda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | stoep (porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | verandë (cupola, Piazza, porch, stoop, terrace, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فارندة, شرفة (balcony, gulp, niche, overhang, porch, slot, terrace, tier, traverse, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чардак (loggia, porch), веранда (gallery, porch, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 走廊 (corridor, piazza), 游廊, 廡 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veranda (porch, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | veranda-net (veranda net, verandah net). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veranda (porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | verando (porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veranta (porch), kuistikko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | véranda (verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Veranda (patio, Piazza, porch, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βεράντα (porch, verandah), μπαλκόνι με στέγην, προπύλαιο (porch, stoop, vestibule), εξώστησ με στέγην. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | veranda (porch, porchway, stoop, verandah), tornác (arcade, gallery, porch, verandah, vestibule, waist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | serambi (gallery, porch), emperan (awning, overhang, porch), emper (awning, overhang, porch), beranda (cloister, quarterdeck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veranda (porch, verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 縁側 (balcony, open corridor, porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | え"がわ (balcony, open corridor, porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 란다. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | verandey (verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | veranda (porch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erandavay varanda (balcony, gallery, gazabo, gazebo, picaresque, porch, stoop, terrace). (various references) verandã (Piazza, porch, stoop, verandah), pridvor (balcony, hallway). (various references) веранда (porch, verandah). (various references) veranda (porch), doksat (porch). (various references) veranda (verandah). (various references) veranda (Piazza, porch, verandah). (various references) veranda (patio, porch, verandah), camlı taraça (verandah). (various references) eяwan, dalan (porch). (various references) веранда (porch, terrace, verandah). (various references) hè (verandah). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veranda": verandaed, verandah, verandahed, verandahs, verandas. (additional references) | |
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"Veranda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bernadac, Evrard, nefanda, varasdin, verad, veran, verand, verandap, Verard, verdana, verran, verrand, vianda, virand, viranda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "veranda" (pronounced vera"ndu) |
| 5 | -er a" n d u | memoranda. |
| 4 | -a" n d u | panda, propaganda. |
| 3 | -n d u | agenda, anaconda, Golconda, hacienda, Honda, referenda, rotunda. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n-r-v" | |
-2 letters: anear, arena, daven, denar, drave, navar, raved, raven, redan, vanda, vaned, varna. | |
-3 letters: area, aver, dare, darn, dean, dear, deva, earn, nada, nard, nave, near, nerd, rand, rave, read, rend, vane, vara, vena, vend, vera. | |
-4 letters: ana, and, ane, are, ava, ave, den, dev, ear, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red, rev, van, var. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed, en, er, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: advancer, verandah, verandas. | |
+2 letters: advancers, caravaned, verandaed, verandahs. | |
+3 letters: adenoviral, animadvert, cadaverine, caravanned, heavenward, verandahed. | |
+4 letters: animadverts, cadaverines, depravation, heavenwards, maidservant, overmanaged, transvalued. | |
+5 letters: animadverted, depravations, derivational, maidservants, overabundant, overanalyzed, overarranged, overbalanced, quadrivalent, revaccinated, revalidating, revalidation, valetudinary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 72 61 6E 64 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-. .- -. -.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e r a n d a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0072 0061 006E 0064 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56718467807067 |
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