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See also: Arcade
English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɑːˈkeɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: ar‧cade
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
[edit]arcade (plural arcades)
- (architecture) A row of arches.
- 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
- The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.
- (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
- An establishment that runs coin-operated games.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]row of arches
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covered passage, usually with shops on both sides
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establishment running coin-operated games
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Verb
[edit]arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)
- (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
- 1873, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Choice of Sons-in-Law”, in The Death Shot. A Romance of Forest and Prairie. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 224:
- […] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)
- (architecture) arcade (array of arches)
Derived terms
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[edit]- → Indonesian: arkade
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian arcata. By surface analysis, arc + -ade.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arcade f (plural arcades)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “arcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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