verandah

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 Dictionary notes

[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative spellings

• veranda

[edit] Etymology

From Hindi, from Portuguese varanda (“‘balustrade; balcony’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /vəˈɹæn.də/

[edit] Noun

verandah (plural verandahs)

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:

     [...] and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Dictionary notes

• The Macquarie Dictionary prefers the spelling veranda, listing the spelling verandah as Also.
• The Shorter Oxford Dictionary lists the spellings in the order veranda, verandah.
• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary lists the spellings in the order veranda, verandah.