Crossword clues for veranda
veranda
- Front porch
- Place for a wicker chair
- A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- House extension
- Open porch
- Lanai
- Porch with a roof, usually
- Queen entering London museum’s portico
- What’s partly over and above porch
- Roofed gallery beside a house
- Part of building outsiders used in rumba on celebration day
- Unframed Hera in museum gallery
- Addition to a house
- Roofed porch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veranda \Ve*ran"da\, n. [A word brought by the English from India; of uncertain origin; cf. Skr. vara??a, Pg. varanda, Sp. baranda, Malay baranda.] (Arch.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
The house was of adobe, low, with a wide veranda on the
three sides of the inner court.
--Mrs. H. H.
Jackson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also verandah, 1711, from Hindi varanda, which probably is from Portuguese varanda, originally "long balcony or terrace," of uncertain origin, possibly related to Spanish baranda "railing," and ultimately from Vulgar Latin *barra "barrier, bar." French véranda is borrowed from English.\n\nThat the word as used in England and in France was brought by the English from India need not be doubted. But either in the same sense, or in one closely analogous, it appears to have existed, quite independently, in Portuguese and Spanish; and the manner in which it occurs without explanation in the very earliest narrative of the adventure of the Portuguese in India ... seems almost to preclude the possibility of their having learned it in that country for the first time ....
[Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, "Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases," 1903]
Wiktionary
n. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. (from 18th c.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A veranda or verandah (from Hindi , ) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front and sides of the structure.
Although the form "verandah" is correct and very common, some authorities prefer the version without an h (the Concise Oxford English Dictionary gives the h version as a variant, and The Guardian Style Guide says "veranda not verandah").
Veranda is a lifestyle magazine with a focus on the home, and had a circulation of 476,539 copies in 2012. It is a resource for living well, from decorating and architecture to fashion and beauty. The magazine is one of the Hearst Corporation's shelter magazine titles, alongside Elle Décor and House Beautiful. Its headquarters is in New York City.
Usage examples of "veranda".
It landed almost at the feet of an old woman standing actionless at the veranda rail, only to dart off again immediately.
Bay had never seen Rancho Dolorosa and was impressed by the huge whitewashed adobe house with its veranda overlooking the Brazos River.
The Senite stepped onto the veranda, its hands folded politely in its long white sleeves and a look of care upon its ageless face.
Guests flooded in from the verandas and grouped themselves in doorways, watching Darden, who was flanked by the directors of the Argyle Museum.
A little man with a gray mustache and matching sweater was sitting and rocking on the veranda when Admiral Beagle took the steps.
Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back veranda to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.
Their house was the old colonial kind, with a veranda all round it, shaded with wistaria, passionfruit and choko vines.
I found a message that Sherry had gone to visit Missus Chubby when I arrived back at the shack, so I went out on to the veranda with a cold beer.
But when he started to climb the veranda steps, he stumbled and would have fallen, had not Daffadar Ghulam Rasul put out a hand to steady him.
She and Dancy rounded the corner of the house together and came out onto Bohemia Avenue just as Madam Rose herself appeared on the veranda.
Just as the protesters moved toward the veranda in a seething body bent on wreaking destruction upon the two women, Dancy, and anything else that stood in their way, a stout figure in dark clothing mounted the steps to stand beside Dancy.
He followed Dobie onto the veranda and stood beside him at the top of the steps.
Whereas before, a world-weary dragoman had hardly been able to set foot on the veranda of a tourist hotel without being pounced upon by wealthy Europeans in search of the rumored depravities of the Levant, now these same poor slaves to the lusts of foreign exploiters were summarily scorned.
Balconies, verandas, dripstones, running molds, and mullions carved from mocha-colored limestone.
He raised his right thumb toward where Tippoo Tip stood on the veranda of the derelict duka and as he returned the salute, the Hind rose vertically above the village and swung its nose toward the north.