PERGOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pergola mean? 

• PERGOLA (noun)
  The noun PERGOLA has 1 sense:

1. a framework that supports climbing plants

  Familiarity information: PERGOLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERGOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A framework that supports climbing plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arbor; arbour; bower; pergola

Context example:

the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

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

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

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

grape arbor; grape arbour (an arbor where grapes are grown)

 Context examples 

The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)