promenade

See also: Promenade

English

Etymology

French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

• (UK), (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒmənɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɑməˈneɪd/
• (UK), (US) Rhymes: -ɑːd
• (US) Rhymes: -eɪd

Compare with tomato.

Noun

promenade (plural promenades)

1. (formal) A prom (dance).
2. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) to this entry?)

3. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:

     The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

     By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

4. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

Synonyms

• (a place to walk): esplanade

Translations

place to walk

• Afrikaans: prom
• Catalan: passeig (ca) m
• Cornish: rosva f
• Esperanto: promeno
• French: promenoir (fr) m
• German: Promenade (de) f
• Hebrew: טַיֶלֶת‎ (tayellet)
• Hungarian: sétány (hu), promenád
• Macedonian: шеталиште n (šetálište), корзо n (kórzo)

• Polish: promenada (pl) f
• Portuguese: calçadão m
• Russian: пешехо́дная у́лица f (pešexódnaja úlica), промена́д (ru) m (promenád), эсплана́да (ru) f (esplanáda)
• Scottish Gaelic: àite-spaistireachd m
• Spanish: paseo (es) m
• Swedish: promenad (sv) c
• Volapük: spataveg (vo), (seaside) melaspataveg
• Welsh: promenâd m, bwhwmanfa f

Verb

promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)

1. To walk.
2. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

Derived terms

• promenader (agent noun)

Translations

to walk

• Armenian: զբոսնել (hy) (zbosnel)
• Catalan: passejar (ca)
• French: promener (fr)
• German: spazieren gehen (de)

• Hungarian: sétál (hu), korzózik
• Macedonian: шета (šéta)
• Norwegian: gå tur, spasere (no), promenere (no)
• Spanish: pasear (es)

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔm.nad/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: promenades

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades)

1. walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)

Further reading

• “promenade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).