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单词 exedra
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Definition of exedra in English:

exedra

nounPlural exedrae ˈɛksɪdrəɪkˈsiːdrə
Architecture
  • 1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek buildings.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.
    • The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall.
    • The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
    • Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
    1. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat.

Origin

Latin, from Greek ex- 'out of' + hedra 'seat'.

 
 

Definition of exedra in US English:

exedra

noun
Architecture
  • 1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek houses and gymnasia, typically semicircular in plan.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
    • When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.
    • The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall.
    • The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
    1. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat.

Origin

Latin, from Greek ex- ‘out of’ + hedra ‘seat’.

 
 
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