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veranda

[ vuh-ran-duh ]

noun

  1. Also ±¹±ð·°ù²¹²Ôd²¹³ó. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.


veranda

/ ±¹É™Ëˆ°ùæ²Ô»åÉ™ /

noun

  1. a porch or portico, sometimes partly enclosed, along the outside of a building
  2. a canopy sheltering pedestrians in a shopping street
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Derived Forms

  • ±¹±ðˈ°ù²¹²Ô»å²¹±ð»å, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of veranda1

1705–15; < Hindi baraṇá¸Ä, barÄmdÄ < Persian bar Ämadaḥ coming out (unless the Hindi word is < Portuguese varanda, Spanish baranda railing, balustrade; bar 1 )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of veranda1

C18: from Portuguese varanda railing; related to Hindi ±¹²¹°ù²¹²Ô»åÄå railing
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Here, you’ll come across the ruins of the White Point Hot Springs Hotel, where guests once lounged in hot sulfur spring-fed swimming pools and shimmied the Charleston on the veranda.

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The agency published a video in which it showed security officials detaining a man in jeans and a black shirt who was sitting at a veranda outside a restaurant in central Moscow.

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Listening to him on his veranda are four generations of his family.

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When the tour groups leave, the couple sit on their veranda, the silence broken only by the whine of Israeli army drones and the regular boom of outgoing artillery.

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Over the man’s shoulder, Razi could see the beachfront, with children flying kites, and the town houses with wide verandas beginning where the more modest fishermen’s houses stopped.

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