arcade
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See also: Arcade
English[edit]
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.
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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, chapter 25, in The Death Shot,[1], volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, 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 street—
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Dutch[edit]
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Noun[edit]
arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)
- (architecture) arcade (array of arches)
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- → Indonesian: arkade
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian arcata. By surface analysis, arc + -ade.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arcade f (plural arcades)
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Further reading[edit]
- “arcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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