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单词 colonnade
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Definition of colonnade in English:

colonnade

noun ˌkɒləˈneɪdˌkɑləˈneɪd
  • 1A row of evenly spaced columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arches.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
    • It consists of a central block with two small temples forming pavilions, all with grand porticoes and linked by colonnades.
    • At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building was extended by addition of east and west wings linked to the centre by colonnades tracing the path of the old road.
    • Near the site museum is a row of truncated columns, part of the colonnade of a portico belonging to the forum.
    • This screen of timber and steel shades the interiors and forms a colonnade running through the public facilities - exhibition, gallery, function, and cafe - to the new quadrangle.
    • Concrete also stars in a colonnade of poured-in-place columns that runs along three of the courtyard's sides.
    • Domes of turquoise and eggshell, arches and colonnades, all arranged with effortless rhythm and elegance.
    • There is space for sitting at the inner plaza's center and dark, cool shade under colonnades at its edges.
    • The reconstruction included the massive ornamental pylons with round balconies, classical columns, and a semicircular colonnade set on piers along the north and south sides
    • One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia.
    • The rhythm of its open colonnade is echoed in that of the hall across the court.
    • The traditional gallery house had covered spaces that opened to the outside through a colonnade or arcade.
    • The triangular prismatic columns of the new colonnade restate this quality in geometry that invokes the cathedral's name.
    • Unsullied nature, however, was to be carefully constructed and framed by the arches, colonnades, and balustrades of a proposed new northwestern highway entrance to the city.
    • The old Getty in Malibu had been modelled after a Roman villa, all colonnades and porticos, and the new one, too, is full of Europeanate historical references.
    • Park guided viewers through the next gallery with a colonnade of arches made of clear or translucent reinforced vinyl.
    • Entablatures and colonnades are common structural features of basalt.
    • Buildings are clustered to encourage student/faculty dialogue and are intersected by quaint plazas, terraces, lavender gardens, and colonnades.
    • The rest of the structure is of bamboo: poles 80 to 100 mm in diameter are lashed together with rattan or connected by bolts to form roof trusses and the colonnade.
    • The sight lines leading to the colonnade and entablature of the Parliament are left unobstructed.
    Synonyms
    row of columns, peristyle
    portico, arcade, loggia, covered walk, gallery, cloisters, stoa
    1. 1.1 A row of trees or other tall objects.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A long colonnade of towers would line Atlantic Avenue, terracing down to a landscaped park bounded by low-rise residential buildings, scaled to the existing brownstone neighborhood just to the south.
      • The eastern slope below Playfair's buildings has been pierced by a rusticated colonnade of battered piers framing large windows.
      • Suddenly there was hardly a logging truck to be seen on Route 101, and the town's once-busy main street became a battered colonnade of crumbling facades and closed businesses.
      • They look like an elegant row of columns, tiny enough for atomic-scale hide-and-seek, but these colonnades represent a new way to bring nanotechnology into mass production.

Derivatives

  • colonnaded

  • adjective ˌkɒləˈneɪdɪdkɑləˈneɪdɪd
    • The Parliament building is a huge and austere '20s stripped Classical block a la Tengbom in pink Finnish granite by J. S. Siren, massively colonnaded and raised on a daunting stepped plinth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The enclosed rooms are separated by small gardens, but tied together to the west by a long colonnaded veranda that runs the whole length of the building.
      • The grape harvest is received and sorted in a colonnaded courtyard at the east end of the site, where an oversailing roof canopy shades and signposts the entrance to the great vat shed.
      • Roman cities thrived on unplanned diversity - colonnaded buildings around the forum at the heart of each town were used as shops, meeting rooms and places of work and recreation.
      • Built incrementally, it was originally a theatre, with a pleasingly symmetrical Italianate colonnaded frontage facing the town's main square.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, from colonne 'column', from Latin columna.

Rhymes

abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade
 
 

Definition of colonnade in US English:

colonnade

nounˌkɑləˈneɪdˌkäləˈnād
  • 1A row of columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arcade.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's the Parthenon, built in 446 B.C., with its colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure.
    • The sight lines leading to the colonnade and entablature of the Parliament are left unobstructed.
    • Near the site museum is a row of truncated columns, part of the colonnade of a portico belonging to the forum.
    • At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building was extended by addition of east and west wings linked to the centre by colonnades tracing the path of the old road.
    • One should perceive a bit further in the distance the colonnade forming the peristyle of the temple of Berecynthia.
    • The reconstruction included the massive ornamental pylons with round balconies, classical columns, and a semicircular colonnade set on piers along the north and south sides
    • There is space for sitting at the inner plaza's center and dark, cool shade under colonnades at its edges.
    • The rhythm of its open colonnade is echoed in that of the hall across the court.
    • Entablatures and colonnades are common structural features of basalt.
    • The triangular prismatic columns of the new colonnade restate this quality in geometry that invokes the cathedral's name.
    • Park guided viewers through the next gallery with a colonnade of arches made of clear or translucent reinforced vinyl.
    • It consists of a central block with two small temples forming pavilions, all with grand porticoes and linked by colonnades.
    • Domes of turquoise and eggshell, arches and colonnades, all arranged with effortless rhythm and elegance.
    • This screen of timber and steel shades the interiors and forms a colonnade running through the public facilities - exhibition, gallery, function, and cafe - to the new quadrangle.
    • Unsullied nature, however, was to be carefully constructed and framed by the arches, colonnades, and balustrades of a proposed new northwestern highway entrance to the city.
    • The traditional gallery house had covered spaces that opened to the outside through a colonnade or arcade.
    • The rest of the structure is of bamboo: poles 80 to 100 mm in diameter are lashed together with rattan or connected by bolts to form roof trusses and the colonnade.
    • Buildings are clustered to encourage student/faculty dialogue and are intersected by quaint plazas, terraces, lavender gardens, and colonnades.
    • The old Getty in Malibu had been modelled after a Roman villa, all colonnades and porticos, and the new one, too, is full of Europeanate historical references.
    • Concrete also stars in a colonnade of poured-in-place columns that runs along three of the courtyard's sides.
    Synonyms
    row of columns, peristyle
    1. 1.1 A row of trees or other tall objects.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Suddenly there was hardly a logging truck to be seen on Route 101, and the town's once-busy main street became a battered colonnade of crumbling facades and closed businesses.
      • A long colonnade of towers would line Atlantic Avenue, terracing down to a landscaped park bounded by low-rise residential buildings, scaled to the existing brownstone neighborhood just to the south.
      • The eastern slope below Playfair's buildings has been pierced by a rusticated colonnade of battered piers framing large windows.
      • They look like an elegant row of columns, tiny enough for atomic-scale hide-and-seek, but these colonnades represent a new way to bring nanotechnology into mass production.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, from colonne ‘column’, from Latin columna.

 
 
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