colonnade

[ kol-uh-neyd ]

noun

1. Architecture. a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof. Compare arcade.
2. a series of trees planted in a long row, as on each side of a driveway or road.

colonnade

/ ˌkɒləˈneɪd /

noun

1. a set of evenly-spaced columns
2. a row of regularly spaced trees

Derived Forms

• ˌcolonˈnaded, adjective

Other Words From

• colon·naded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of colonnade¹

1710–20; < French, equivalent to colonne column + -ade -ade ¹, on the model of Italian colonnato

Word History and Origins

Origin of colonnade¹

C18: from French, from colonne column ; on the model of Italian colonnato, from colonna column

Example Sentences

In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.

From The Daily Beast

Inside the colonnade there were supposed to be statues of 30 famous Revolutionary War heroes.

From The Daily Beast

As I have previously written in another account, our father led us down the colonnade that runs past the Oval Office.

From The Daily Beast

Obama left the meeting, walked across the colonnade past the Rose Garden to the residence, to make a decision.

From The Daily Beast

The porticoes of all these buildings formed a continuous colonnade by the side of the street.

From Project Gutenberg

Heard from granite colonnade or beneath cool linen awning, it was mellowed by distance, to monotonous music.

From Project Gutenberg

Through a magnificent colonnade I could see a second court on one side, where were the offices; the door was rotting.

From Project Gutenberg

The background, too, that colonnade “leading nowhither,” is characteristic of the change in the manner of regarding things.

From Project Gutenberg

While pacing the colonnade one afternoon, there appeared to him a female form of superhuman size and beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• portico