VERANDAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does verandah mean? 

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

1. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERANDAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gallery; veranda; verandah

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

porch (a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance)

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

lanai (a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Strong opened the window, and went out into the verandah, where she stood leaning against a pillar.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was confirmed in this idea by the fact of her once or twice coming downstairs on very warm sunny afternoons, and being taken by Miss Temple into the garden; but, on these occasions, I was not allowed to go and speak to her; I only saw her from the schoolroom window, and then not distinctly; for she was much wrapped up, and sat at a distance under the verandah.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The only marked event of the afternoon was, that I saw the girl with whom I had conversed in the verandah dismissed in disgrace by Miss Scatcherd from a history class, and sent to stand in the middle of the large schoolroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The stronger among the girls ran about and engaged in active games, but sundry pale and thin ones herded together for shelter and warmth in the verandah; and amongst these, as the dense mist penetrated to their shivering frames, I heard frequently the sound of a hollow cough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger which gnawed me within, delivered myself up to the employment of watching and thinking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was English history: among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top of the class, but for some error of pronunciation, or some inattention to stops, she was suddenly sent to the very bottom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The garden was a wide inclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect; a covered verandah ran down one side, and broad walks bordered a middle space divided into scores of little beds: these beds were assigned as gardens for the pupils to cultivate, and each bed had an owner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)