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veranda - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

veranda (plural verandas)

  • A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
    • ✤ Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out.1
    • ✤ No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.2
    • ✤ Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.3

Etymology

An Indian English word456 of Indo-Portuguese origin,7 from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /vəˈɹæn.də/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ændə

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 66: ↩

  2. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46: ↩

  3. 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind ‎: ↩

  4. “veranda”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. ↩

  5. “veranda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN. ↩

  6. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “veranda”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

  7. “veranda”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. ↩

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