colonnade

noun

col·​on·​nade ˌkä-lə-ˈnād How to pronounce colonnade (audio)
: a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure
colonnaded adjective

Examples of colonnade in a Sentence

A colonnade surrounds the courtyard.
Recent Examples on the Web By the time the sun went down, the room had filled, and the party was spilling out onto the colonnade, where people mingled underneath palm trees in the heavy air. Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024 It's designed as an homage to the grand hotels of 1920s Paris, complete with colonnades, a cobblestone courtyard and impeccable service. Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024 In the 1950s, the building’s exterior colonnades were enclosed to expand the interior space to 42,000 square feet. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024 The Raffles's breezy marble colonnades are a welcome respite, as are the rosy pink Singapore slings, invented here at the Long Bar in 1915 by Hainanese bartender Ngiam Tong Boon. Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023 And under these arches, these sort of colonnades, there was a fishmonger. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2023 Then, the device pushes the electrons down a colonnade: two rows of several hundred silicon pillars, each just 2 micrometers tall, with an even smaller gap between the rows. Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023 The runway show took place in Bloomsbury, at the British Museum, laid out beneath that institution’s neoclassical colonnade, so that the models were quite literally following in the footsteps of their historical antecedents. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023 Its core structure is circular: a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree colonnade, with a trio of interior lobes housing the two legislative bodies and the parliamentary library, with the space between them preserved as a vast courtyard. Daniel Brook, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

French, from Italian colonnato, from colonna column

First Known Use

1718, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of colonnade was in 1718

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“Colonnade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colonnade. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

colonnade

noun
col·​on·​nade ˌkäl-ə-ˈnād How to pronounce colonnade (audio)
: an evenly spaced row of columns usually supporting the base of a roof structure
colonnaded adjective
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