ARCADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arcade mean? 

• ARCADE (noun)
  The noun ARCADE has 2 senses:

1. a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side

2. a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

  Familiarity information: ARCADE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("arcade" is a kind of...):

passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arcade"):

amusement arcade (an arcade featuring coin-operated game machines)

penny arcade (an arcade with coin-operated devices for entertainment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arcade; colonnade

Hypernyms ("arcade" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Meronyms (parts of "arcade"):

arch ((architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arcade"):

loggia (a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level)

 Context examples 

A distinctive variant of fibrosarcoma, characterized by an admixture of heavily collagenized and myxoid zones, deceptively bland spindled cells with a whorling growth pattern and arcades of curvilinear blood vessels.

(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)