arcade

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɑɹˈkeɪd/
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/ɑɹˈkeɪd/ · /ɑːˈkeɪd/

Definition of arcade

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A row of arches.
    “The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.”
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noun

  1. A row of arches.
    “The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.”
  2. A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of amusement arcade.

verb

  1. (transitive)To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
    “[…] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Italian arcatabor. French arcadeubor. English arcade Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymlogically related to Arcadia.

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