COLONNADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colonnade mean? 

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

1. structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns

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

  Familiarity information: COLONNADE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLONNADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

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

peristyle (a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court)

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 ("colonnade" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "colonnade"):

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 "colonnade"):

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 

Anne, cried Mary, still at her window, there is Mrs Clay, I am sure, standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days, there was a low wooden colonnade before the door (not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live, in the old weather-glass), which pleased Mr. Dick mightily.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)