Awning

Definition: Awning

Awning

Noun

1. A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun.

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Date "awning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Industry

Energy

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Synonyms: Awning

Covering

Noun: covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade; veil (shade); shield; (defense).

Crosswords: Awning

Caption: The 49 Contestants in the 1929 Edison Scholarship Contest; Edison Radios, with Names of States Attached, Are under Awning in Rear; West Orange, NJ; July, 1929; {13.100/8} (jpg).

Taking green water over her bow during a storm off the U.S. Atlantic Coast, circa July-September 1898. Note canvas protective wrapping around the 5"/40 gun mounted on this converted ferryboat's low forecastle, and furled awning overhead. Credit: NAVY.

Crewmembers cooking on deck, in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson. This view looks forward from the port quarter, with the port side blower hatch in the foreground, the two smokestacks in the middle distance and the turret beyond. The sailor standing atop the turret is holding a telescope. Note cookstove supported on bricks at left and awning above the turret. Credit: NAVY.

In the middle west chamber, Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal to the Pacific on 26 July 1919. Note awning spread over the battleship's foredeck. Credit: NAVY.

Moored in the Canal della Guidecca, during a visit to Venice, Italy, on 23 August 1951. Salem was then flagship of the Sixth Fleet. Note decorated awning rigged forward, probably for entertaining visiting dignitaries. Credit: NAVY.

Officers posing on deck and atop the turret, while the ship was in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, in 1865. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Edward Barrett, is seated on the turret, in center. Note awning spread over the turret and conning tower, ship's bell mounted on the turret side, marks from Confederate shot hits on the turret armor, and additional armor plate laid on the deck. Guns on field carriages are 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzers. Turret gun to the right is a XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. The other turret gun is a XV-inch Dahlgren smoothbore. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed on the Western Rivers, 1864. Note rowing boats in the foreground. That at left has a fancy-edged awning. Credit: NAVY.

Moored to a Western Rivers' shoreline, during the Civil War. Note awning spread over the ship's foredeck, and bell at the front of her superstructure. Credit: NAVY.

Doorman without shirt standing under awning frame without awning in front of ornate entrance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Former coal miner sitting on his front porch. He is the town philosopher, Jere, West Viriginia. Repairs his home. Note railing and potato sack awning. Experiments with an elaborate garden on a hill about two miles away. See 50081-E, 50057-E. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I was sometimes tempted to stretch an awning over them and take my seat there.

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Expression using "awning": awning deck. Additional references.

Albanian

tendë (Bower, canonry, canopy, hovel, marquee, pavilion, shade, summerhouse, sun blind, sunshade, tent, tilt), strehë (asylum, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, pad, peak, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, sconce, shade, shed, shelter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سقيفة (shed, shelter), ‏خيمة (pavilion, tent), ‏الظلة ما يظلل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

чергило (tilt), тента, навес (bulkhead, canopy, hovel, marquee, outbuilding, penthouse, shed, shelter, stoop, tilt). (various references)

Chinese 

遮篷. (various references)

Czech

roleta proti slunci, plátìná střecha, markýza (marchioness, marquee, sun blind). (various references)

Danish

solsejl (solar sail), sol-og regntag, sejldugstag, presenning (paulin, tarp, tarpaulin), perrontag (platform roofing, platform shelter), markisolette, koerning, bygkøring (removing awns). (various references)

Dutch

abri (shelter), zonnetent, zonnescherm (penthouse, shed), schuilplaats (place of refuge, sanctuary, shelter), ontbaarden (removing awns), dekzeil (paulin, tarp, tarpaulin), dekkleed (tarp, tarpaulin), bootstent. (various references)

Farsi 

پناهگاه (Asylum, Burrow, Covert, Harbor, Hovel, Refuge, Resort, Sanctuary, Shelter, Stronghold), پناه (Blind, Bulwark, Guard, Refuge, Safeguard), حفاظ (Hangar, Safeguard, Scabbard, Shell, Shield, Umbrella), سایبان کرباسی , ساباط (Penthouse, Sunshade). (various references)

Finnish

aurinkopurje (solar sail), aurinkokatos, telttakatos (canopy, canvas cover). (various references)

French

abri de quai, marquise de quai, épersillage, bâche, bâche de recouvrement, banne, ébarbage de l'orge (removing awns), marquise, vélum, prélart, store, store oblique, taud, taude, tente, barbage. (various references)

German

sonnensegel (awnings), plane (canopy, tarp, tarpaulin), markise (blind, canopy, marquee, penthouse, shade, shed, sun blind, sunblind, sunshade). (various references)

Greek 

τέντα (tent). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'�'ון (sunshade), �'� ו�'� ת (canopy, sunshade), סככת ב�", סככ�" (covert, shed, thatch). (various references)

Hungarian

napellenzõ (blinker, sun blind, visor, vizor). (various references)

Indonesian

tenda (tent), emperan (overhang, porch, veranda), emper (overhang, porch, veranda), ebek. (various references)

Italian

tenda (blind, curtain, tent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

オートマチック車 (autoload, auto-manipulator, automat, automatic camera for detecting and recording speeding vehicles, automatic repeat, automatic return, automatic reverse, automatic transmission car, automation, automaton, automobile, autoracing, auto-raise, ball hit over the head of an outfielder, convertible, eau de toilette, exaggeration, exceeding, going beyond, hors d'oeuvre, oatmeal, OB, ode, old boy, open, open account, open caption, open course, open game, open golf, open sandwich, open side, open system, open toaster, open-air, open-end mortgage, opener, opening, opening game, opening number, orb, orbiter, ornament, out-of-bounds, oven, oven toaster, over, over doctor, over fence, over par, overaction, overall, overblouse, overbooking, overborrowing, overcharge, overcoat, overdraft, overdrive, overdub, overflow, overhand, overhand pass, overhand throw, overhang, overhaul, overhaul net, overhead, overhead pass, overhead projector, overheat, overkill, overlap, overlay, overload, overloading, overloan, overnight, overnight bag, overnight photo service, overpace, overpresence, overproof, override, overrun, overshoes, overskill, overslide, overstep, overtime, overture, overweight, overwork, overwrite, overzone, owner, owner system, owner-driver, owner-pilot, self-locking, water of life). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

オーニング . (various references)

Manx

coodagh (case, coat, coating, cover, envelope, housing, overgrowth, shell, shielding, shroud, veil, wrapper), carmeish (canvas, dodger, tarpaulin). (various references)

Norwegian

solseil, markise. (various references)

Pig Latin

awningay

Portuguese

toldo (canopy, canvas, duck, hood, penthouse, sunblind, tilt). (various references)

Romanian

apãrãtoare de soare, marchizã (marchioness, marquee, marquess, marquise, porch roof, tambour), cort (Lodge, pavilion, tent). (various references)

Russian 

навес (boat-house, canopy, fence roof, hangar, hovel, lean-to, overhang, penthouse, shed, sun-blind, tent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nadstrešnica (eaves, marquee), cirada. (various references)

Spanish

toldo (blind, canopy, hood, sunblind, sunshade), marquesina (glass canopy, marquee, roof). (various references)

Swedish

soltält, markis (marquee, marquess, marquis, sun blind, sunblind, sunshade). (various references)

Turkish

tente (canopy, marquee, sun blind, tarp, tarpaulin, tester, tilt), güneşlik (sun blind, sun visor, sunshade, tilt, visor, vizor). (various references)

Turkmen 

telдr (shed), bassyrma. (various references)

Ukrainian

тент (canopy, parasol, tent, tilting), навіс (barrack, canopy, housing, hovel, lean to, sunshade). (various references)

Welsh

cysgodlen. (various references)

linteis, linteo, linteolis, linteum, velum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "awning": awninged, awnings. (additional references)

Words ending with "awning": dawning, fawning, impawning, outfawning, pawning, prawning, spawning, yawning. (additional references)

Words containing "awning": fawningly, yawningly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Awning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahnung, aining, anoing, anwing, asnign, jawning, Qazwnin, wanig, wannian, wannig, wanning. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: waning.

-1 letter: awing, gnawn, wigan.

-2 letters: agin, gain, gnaw, wain, wing.

-3 letters: ain, ani, awn, gan, gin, inn, nag, nan, naw, wag, wan, wig, win.

-4 letters: ag, ai, an, aw, in, na.

+1 letter: awnings, dawning, fawning, gnawing, pawning, snawing, wanigan, wanning, wanting, warning, weaning, wingman, yawning.

+2 letters: awninged, gnawings, prawning, spawning, swanking, swanning, swingman, twanging, unwaning, wagoning, wakening, wangling, wanigans, wannigan, warnings, weanling, whanging, wingspan, womaning.

+3 letters: answering, awakening, fawningly, impawning, inwalling, inweaving, jawboning, narrowing, twangling, undrawing, unweaving, waggoning, wakenings, wandering, wannigans, wantoning, warningly, weakening, weanlings, weaponing, wingspans, wrangling, yawningly.