exedra

[ ek-si-druh, ek-see- ]

noun

, plural ex·e·drae [ek, -si-dree, ek-, see, -dree].

1. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a room or covered area open on one side, used as a meeting place.
2. a permanent outdoor bench, semicircular in plan and having a high back.

exedra

/ ɛkˈsiː-; ˈɛksɪdrə /

noun

1. a building, room, portico, or apse containing a continuous bench, used in ancient Greece and Rome for holding discussions
2. an outdoor bench in a recess

Other Words From

• exe·dral adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exedra¹

1700–10; < Latin: hall furnished with seats < Greek exédra (covered) walk with seats, equivalent to ex- ex- ³ + ( h ) édra seat, bench

Word History and Origins

Origin of exedra¹

C18: via Latin from Greek, from hedra seat

Example Sentences

F, F, exedra in which there were seats for the philosophers to hold their conversations.

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Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair.

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Laodice flung her hands over her face and shrank in an agony of shame down upon the exedra.

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The exedra is also adorned with many other paintings and ornaments which it would be too long to describe.

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The large exedra at the southern side contains on the ground-floor a vast central saloon, and two side rooms.

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