Esplanade

Definition: Esplanade

Esplanade

Noun

1. A long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "esplanade" was first used: 1591. (references)

Etymology: Esplanade \Es`pla*nade"\, noun. [French expression esplanade, Spanish esplanada, explanada, compare to Italian expression spianata; from Spanish explanar to level, from Latin expression explanare to flatten or spread out. See Explain.]. (references)

Mining

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Abode

Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.

Horizontality

Plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre.

Crosswords: Esplanade

French (esplanade, plaza, public square, square).

Panorama of Esplanade from Bridge of Triumph (1902)

Circular Panorama of the Esplanade with the Electric Tower in the Background (1901)

Panoramic View of the Temple of Music and Esplanade (1901)

Panorama of Esplanade by Night (1901)

Esplanade des Invalides (1900)

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Books

• Esplanadi 1800-luvulla, Helsinki = Esplanaden på 1800-talet, Helsingfors = The Esplanade during the 19th Century, Helsinki (reference)

• New Orleans Architecture Vol V: The Esplanade Ridge (reference)

• The house on Esplanade (reference)

• The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive: Fifty by Fifty Feet House, Esplanade Apartment Buildings, and Other Buildings and Projects (Garland Architectural Arc) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Paul Taylor Dance Company: WNET/Dance In America: Esplanade & Runes (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Esplanade (reference)

• Live at Continental & Esplanade [IMPORT] [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Esplanade Street, New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gauche House gate, 704 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Continental Restaurant, Paramus, New Jersey. Dining room, to esplanade. Credit: Library of Congress.

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There he took a cabriolet, which carried him as far as the esplanade of the Observatory

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Travel

Croatia

There are also a variety of lower rated hotels in the city including the four-star Esplanade and the three-star Dubrovnik Hotel, which has been renovated, on the city's main square. (references)

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Albanian

shesh (circus, course, court, field, ground, place, platform, Square, table). (various references)

Arabic 

‏المستوية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

еспаланда, издигнат кей край плаж, издигнат път край плаж. (various references)

Czech

esplanáda. (various references)

Finnish

esplanadi (avenue). (various references)

French

esplanade. (various references)

German

strandpromenade (front, promenade), promenade (alameda, boardwalk, boardwalks, constitutional, parade, promenade). (various references)

Greek 

παραλιακόσ δρόμοσ, δρόμοσ για περίπατο, δρόμοσ για αμαξοπορεία. (various references)

Hungarian

sétány (ambulatory, boardwalk, horrde, parade, prom, promenade, walk, walkway). (various references)

Indonesian

taman (garden, park), lapangan terbuka. (various references)

Italian

passeggiata (jaunt, promenade, ramble, ride, stroll, walk), lungomare (prom, promenade, seafront, waterfront). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遊歩道 (promenade), 散歩道 (promenade, walk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さんぽみち (promenade, walk), ゆうほどう (promenade). (various references)

Manx

shooylaghan (promenade, sea-front), esplanaid (seafront). (various references)

Pig Latin

esplanadeay.(various references)

Portuguese

esplanada (promenade, seafront). (various references)

Romanian

esplanadã. (various references)

Russian 

эспланада. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šetalište (mall, promenade, walk). (various references)

Spanish

explanada (approach court, capping layer, forecourt, formation, improved subgrade, selected fill, subgrade, subsoil), esplanada. (various references)

Swedish

esplanad (Avenue, Mall), promenadplats (parade, promenade), promenad (perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll, walk, walkabout, walking, wander). (various references)

Turkish

meydan (agora, arena, common, maidan, open space, Piazza, Square), gezinti yeri (prom, promenade), düzlük (evenness, Fen, flat, flatness, floor, level, plain, plainness, platform, straight). (various references)

Ukrainian

еспланада, лука (grass, meadow). (various references)

explanare. (various references)

esplanada. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "esplanade": esplanades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Esplanade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esplan, esplanada, esplande, explanade, explananda. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deplanes, seaplane, spelaean.

-2 letters: deplane, elapsed, paneled, pleased, sepaled, sneaped, speaned, spelean.

-3 letters: alands, aneled, aneles, apneal, apneas, asleep, elands, elapse, ladens, lapsed, leaden, leaned, leaped, leased, lensed, naleds, padles, paeans, paesan, paleae, pandas, panels, pealed, peasen, pedals, pesade, planed, planes, pleads, please, salpae, sandal, sealed, sendal, spleen.

-4 letters: aedes, aland, alane, alans, anele.

+1 letter: esplanades.

+2 letters: relandscape.

+3 letters: encapsulated, relandscaped, relandscapes.

+5 letters: encyclopaedias, pardonableness, sesquipedalian.