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Veranda

Definition: Veranda

Veranda

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "veranda" was first used: 1711. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Veranda

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

An open-air enclosure often used as a spoon-holder. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Dream Interpretation

To dream of being on a veranda, denotes that you are to be successful in some affair which is giving you anxiety.
For a young woman to be with her lover on a veranda, denotes her early and happy marriage.
To see an old veranda, denotes the decline of hopes, and disappointment in business and love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Veranda

Synonyms: gallery (n), verandah (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Veranda

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Receptacle

Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Veranda

English words defined with "veranda": Lanai. (references)
Specialty definitions using "veranda": veranda net. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Veranda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (porch, veranda, verandah), Dutch (porch, veranda), German (patio, Piazza, porch, veranda, verandah), Hungarian (porch, porchway, stoop, veranda, verandah), Italian (porch, veranda, verandah), Papiamen (porch, veranda), Serbo-Croatian (porch, veranda), Spanish (veranda, verandah), Swedish (Piazza, porch, veranda, verandah), Turkish (patio, porch, veranda, verandah).

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Modern Usage: Veranda

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yesterday, in my mind's eye, I saw four women standing on a veranda in white, gauzy dresses and straw-colored hats. (Designing Women; writing credit: Poul Thomsen)

I was thinking later, you could kiss me on the veranda. (Three Amigos!; writing credit: Steve Martin; Lorne Michaels)

Movie/TV Titles

Carmen's Veranda (1944)

Veranda för en tenor (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Veranda

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Light on the Veranda (reference)

  • Daimon & [i.e. und] Veranda : oder, Gesprche eines Mdchens vor dem Tode. Jungfrauenleiden. Der Strahl der Augen trifft die Welt (reference)

  • On the Veranda 2002 Calendar (reference)

  • Priester's presents dining on the Victorian veranda (reference)

  • Veranda fèor en tenor : roman (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Veranda

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Photo Album: Veranda

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Veranda and doorway. Photograph by L.D. Andrew, May 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, GA,108-COLM,4-1) Begun in 1859 for the wealthy Scottish immigrant James A. Rankin but not completed until after the Civil War, this town house combines different building materials and details from a number of historical architectural styles. The ironwork shown here on the veranda is based on the Gothic architecture of medieval England and France. The Corinthian columns of the doorway behind it, on the other hand, call to mind the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. The Rankin House is an excellent example of Eclecticism architecture, the term used to describe the mixing of different styles and materials in buildings.Credit: Library of Congress.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 20, Chatel Guyon, France. : Pre-war view of the veranda of the main surgical building.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

North veranda, Churchill Hall, Stamford, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

The North veranda, Manhansett [i.e. Manhanset] House, Shelter Island, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

On the veranda, Detroit Boat Club, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hotel Green, east building, from veranda of west building, Pasadena, Calif.Credit: Library of Congress.

West veranda, Hotel Champlain, Bluff Point, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

Southern lady of the old school on the veranda of the "Big House" of the Wray Plantation, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Harriman house. Brick veranda at Harriman house.Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand View, veranda.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Veranda

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The full renovation included the installation of wood flooring, new pipes, wood frame windows, walls, a kitchen with wooden cabinets, a veranda, and a complete redo of the two bathrooms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Veranda

"Veranda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Veranda" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12828,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Veranda

Expression using "veranda": veranda net. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "veranda": veranda-ed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Veranda

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

veranda

344

veranda magazine

51

la veranda

15

beach myrtle veranda

15

veranda jardin

12

apartment veranda

10

bed breakfast veranda

7

restaurant veranda

7

veranda house

6

veranda design

6

build a veranda

6

hotel veranda

5

beach club veranda

5

porch veranda

5

beach myrtle north veranda

5

beach manhattan veranda

5

la philadelphia veranda

5

veranda idea

4

la restaurant veranda

4

house nantucket veranda

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Veranda

Language Translations for "veranda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

stoep (porch). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

verandë (cupola, Piazza, porch, stoop, terrace, verandah). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فارندة, ‏شرفة (balcony, gulp, niche, overhang, porch, slot, terrace, tier, traverse, verandah). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чардак (loggia, porch), веранда (gallery, porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

走廊 (corridor, piazza), 游廊, . (various references)

   

Czech

  

veranda (porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Danish

  

veranda-net (veranda net, verandah net). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

veranda (porch). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

verando (porch). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

veranta (porch), kuistikko. (various references)

   

French

  

véranda (verandah). (various references)

   

German

  

Veranda (patio, Piazza, porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βεράντα (porch, verandah), μπαλκόνι με στέγην, προπύλαιο (porch, stoop, vestibule), εξώστησ με στέγην. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

veranda (porch, porchway, stoop, verandah), tornác (arcade, gallery, porch, verandah, vestibule, waist). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

serambi (gallery, porch), emperan (awning, overhang, porch), emper (awning, overhang, porch), beranda (cloister, quarterdeck). (various references)

   

Italian

  

veranda (porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

縁側 (balcony, open corridor, porch). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

え"がわ (balcony, open corridor, porch). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

란다. (various references)

   

Manx

  

verandey (verandah). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

veranda (porch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erandavay

   

Portuguese

  

varanda (balcony, gallery, gazabo, gazebo, picaresque, porch, stoop, terrace). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

verandã (Piazza, porch, stoop, verandah), pridvor (balcony, hallway). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

веранда (porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veranda (porch), doksat (porch). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

veranda (verandah). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

veranda (Piazza, porch, verandah). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

veranda (patio, porch, verandah), camlı taraça (verandah). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

eяwan, dalan (porch). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

веранда (porch, terrace, verandah). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

(verandah). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Veranda

Derivations

Words beginning with "veranda": verandaed, verandah, verandahed, verandahs, verandas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Veranda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bernadac, Evrard, nefanda, varasdin, verad, veran, verand, verandap, Verard, verdana, verran, verrand, vianda, virand, viranda. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Veranda"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "veranda" (pronounced vera"ndu)
5-er a" n d umemoranda.
4-a" n d upanda, propaganda.
3-n d uagenda, anaconda, Golconda, hacienda, Honda, referenda, rotunda.

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

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Anagrams: Veranda

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-n-r-v"

-2 letters: anear, arena, daven, denar, drave, navar, raved, raven, redan, vanda, vaned, varna.

-3 letters: area, aver, dare, darn, dean, dear, deva, earn, nada, nard, nave, near, nerd, rand, rave, read, rend, vane, vara, vena, vend, vera.

-4 letters: ana, and, ane, are, ava, ave, den, dev, ear, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red, rev, van, var.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed, en, er, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-n-r-v"
 

+1 letter: advancer, verandah, verandas.

 

+2 letters: advancers, caravaned, verandaed, verandahs.

 

+3 letters: adenoviral, animadvert, cadaverine, caravanned, heavenward, verandahed.

 

+4 letters: animadverts, cadaverines, depravation, heavenwards, maidservant, overmanaged, transvalued.

 

+5 letters: animadverted, depravations, derivational, maidservants, overabundant, overanalyzed, overarranged, overbalanced, quadrivalent, revaccinated, revalidating, revalidation, valetudinary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Veranda


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 65 72 61 6E 64 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .    .-.    .-    -.    -..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0072 0061 006E 0064 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56718467807067

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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