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Definition: Pergola |
PergolaNoun1. A framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pergola" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Pergola \Per"go*la\, noun. [Italian expression, from the Latin expression pergula shed, shop, vine arbor.]. (references) |
Synonyms: PergolaSynonyms: arbor (n), arbour (n), bower (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pergola |
| Non-English Usage: "Pergola" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (pergola), German (Arbor, Bower, pergola), Italian (Arbor, arbour, pergola), Portuguese (trellised vine). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Unidentified formal garden with pergola. Sketch site plan study. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hiram Walker & Sons, distillery and pergola, Walkerville, Ont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pergola, Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd., Walkerville, Ont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yaddo, home of Spencer Trask, the pergola, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pergola, North Shore Grill Club, Magnolia, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pergola of home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | View of pergola, toward door, to home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A.C. James home, "Suprise Valley", view of flowers and the pergola in the Blue Garden, Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pergola, cupboard, and tent platform are standard equipment of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, Imperial County, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Outdoor summer pergola dining room in yard. Towner, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Through the arches" by Victoria Clare Commentary: "View through a pergola at Schloss Linderhof." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Pergola" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pergola" is used about 34 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pergola" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pergola | Last name | 300 | 29,851 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pergola": pergola-framed, pergola-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "pergola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjergull. (various references) | |
Czech | besídka (alcove, Arbor, arbour, Bower, pavilion). (various references) | |
Danish | pergolaformning (pergola training), pergoladyrkning (vine on pergola), Pergola oploesning (Pergola solution), enarmet pergolapæl (one-armed pergola). (various references) | |
Dutch | wijnstok in pergolavorm (vine on pergola), het leiden langs een pergola (pergola training), eenarmige pergola (one-armed pergola). (various references) | |
Finnish | pergolakasvatus (pergola training), yksisivuinen pergola (one-armed pergola). (various references) | |
French | pergola. (various references) | |
German | Pergola (Arbor, Bower). (various references) | |
Greek | κληματαριά (arbour), αναδενδράδα. (various references) | |
Italian | pergolato (Arbor, arbour, Bower), pergola (Arbor, arbour). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purse, purser). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パーゴラ . (various references) | |
Manx | cassan coodit (arcade). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ergolapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pérgula (arbor, arbour), pérgola. (various references) | |
Romanian | pergolã (Arbor, arbour), chioşc (alcove, Arbor, arbour, bandstand, booth, gazebo, kiosk, pavilion, tobacconist's), cerdac (balcony, verandah). (various references) | |
Russian | беседка из вьющихся растений. (various references) | |
Spanish | pérgola. (various references) | |
Swedish | pergolaformning (pergola training), halv pergola (one-armed pergola). (various references) | |
Turkish | kameriye (alcove, arbour, Bower, summerhouse), çardak (alcove, arbour, booth, dais, summerhouse, trellis). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пергола. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | giàn dây leo đường đi dạo phố có giàn dây leo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pergola": pergolas. (additional references) | |
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"Pergola" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bertola, Bertolan, Ertola, Kerbola, Kergorlay, pergula, pleroma, Pregaday, Pregel, Progoda, purgola, Pyrola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pergola" (pronounced pergō"lu) |
| 3 | -ō" l u | Ayatollah, Bola, canola, Cola, granola, Mola, payola, Sola, Viola. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: galore, gaoler, parole, proleg. | |
-2 letters: algor, argle, argol, galop, gaper, glare, goral, grape, grope, lager, large, largo, loper, ogler, opera, pager, paler, pareo, parge, pargo, parle, parol, pearl, plage, polar, poler, prole, regal. | |
-3 letters: aero, ager, aloe, aper, earl, egal, ergo, gale, gaol, gape, gear, glop, goal, goer, gore, gorp, leap, lear, loge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: galloper, leapfrog, pergolas, playgoer. | |
+2 letters: gallopers, groupable, gyroplane, leapfrogs, oleograph, playgoers, porbeagle, propagule. | |
+3 letters: apologizer, colportage, goalkeeper, grapholect, graptolite, gyroplanes, heliograph, oleographs, pellagrous, phlebogram, porbeagles, praxeology, prelogical, profligate, promulgate, propagable, propagules. | |
+4 letters: apologizers, archipelago, colportages, flexography, goalkeepers, grapholects, graptolites, heliographs, holographed, holographer, leapfrogged, overlapping, overleaping, overplaying, paleography, pelargonium, percolating, phlebograms, phraseology, polygrapher, profligates, prolegomena, promulgated, promulgates, xylographer. | |
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