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veranda
[ vuh-ran-duh ]
noun
- Also ·d. 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
/ əˈæԻə /
noun
- a porch or portico, sometimes partly enclosed, along the outside of a building
- a canopy sheltering pedestrians in a shopping street
Derived Forms
- ˈԻ岹, adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of veranda1
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Example Sentences
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.
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.
Listening to him on his veranda are four generations of his family.
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.
They trotted past the houses on either side—broad, airy verandas that came right down to the edge of the street and were held up by wide round pillars.
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