arcade

arcade

English

An arcade covering a sidewalk (sense 1).

An arcade game (sense 3).

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪd/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: ar‧cade
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     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. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

• amusement arcade
• arcaded
• arcade game
• arcadian
• arcading
• penny arcade
• video arcade

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: アーケード
• → Afrikaans: arcade
• → Czech: arkádové

Translations

row of arches

Armenian: արկադային (arkadayin) Bulgarian: арка́да f (arkáda) Catalan: arcada (ca) f, porxada f Chinese: Mandarin: 拱廊 (zh) (gǒngláng) Czech: arkáda f Danish: arkade (da) c Esperanto: arkado Finnish: kaarikäytävä (fi), arkadi (fi) French: arcade (fr) f Georgian: არკადული (arḳaduli) German: Arkade (de) f Greek: Ancient: στοά f (stoá) Hungarian: árkád (hu) Italian: arcata (it) f, loggiato (it) m, porticato (it) m Japanese: アーケード (ja) (ākēdo) Kyrgyz: аркада (arkada) Macedonian: аркада f (arkada), лакоред m (lakored) Manx: arcaid f Mongolian: аркад (arkad) Norwegian: Bokmål: arkade m Nynorsk: arkade m Pashto: آرکیډ‎ f Persian: ساباط‎ (fa) (sâbât) Polish: arkada (pl) f Portuguese: arcada (pt) f Romanian: arcadă (ro) f Russian: арка́да (ru) f (arkáda) Samoan: ta'aloga ta'avale Sinhalese: ආර්කේඩ් (ārkēḍ) Spanish: arcada (es) f Swedish: arkad (sv) c Turkish: arkat Turkmen: arkada Uzbek: arkada Vietnamese: cửa tò vò

covered passage, usually with shops on both sides

Bulgarian: паса́ж (bg) m (pasáž) Czech: pasáž (cs) f Dutch: winkelpassage f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kauppakuja (fi), pasaasi (fi) French: galerie marchande (fr) f German: Laube (de) f Greek: στοά (el) f (stoá) Hungarian: árkád (hu) Indonesian: arkade (id) Italian: portico (it) m, porticato (it) m, sottoportico (it) m Japanese: 商店街 (ja) (しょうてんがい, shōtengai) Macedonian: пасаж m (pasaž) Manx: cassan coodit m Persian: پاساژ‎ (fa) (pâsâž) Polish: pasaż (pl) m, galeria (pl) f, arkada (pl) f Portuguese: galeria (pt) f, arcada (pt) f Romanian: arcadă (ro) f, pasaj (ro) n Russian: пасса́ж (ru) m (passáž) Spanish: galería (es) f, galería comercial f Turkish: pasaj (tr)

establishment running coin-operated games

Armenian: արկադային (arkadayin) Azerbaijani: oyun salonu Bavarian: spuihoin Chinese: Mandarin: 電子遊樂場／电子游乐场 (diànzǐ yóulèchǎng) Czech: herna s herními automaty f Dutch: speelhal (nl) m or f, automatenhal m or f Esperanto: arkado Finnish: peliluola (fi), pelihalli French: salle d'arcade f Georgian: არკადული (arḳaduli) German: Spielhalle (de) f, Spielothek (de) f Hebrew: מקמרת‎ Hungarian: árkád (hu) Icelandic: spilasalur Indonesian: arkade (id) Italian: sala giochi Japanese: ゲームセンター (gēmusentā) Korean: 게임센터 (geimsenteo) Kyrgyz: аркада (arkada) Malay: arked Mongolian: аркад (arkad) Northern Sami: speallanhálla Oriya: ଆର୍କେଡ୍ (arkeḍ) Pashto: آرکیډ‎ f Polish: arkada (pl) f, salon gier (pl) m Portuguese: fliperama (pt), flíper m Romanian: arcadă (ro) f Russian: арка́да (ru) f (arkáda), галере́я игровы́х автома́тов f (galeréja igrovýx avtomátov), арка́дный центр m (arkádnyj centr) Samoan: ta'aloga ta'avale Spanish: sala de juegos f, salón recreativo (es) m Swedish: spelhall, arkadhall Tagalog: arked Thai: อาเขต (xāk̄het) Turkish: atari salonu Turkmen: arkada Uzbek: arkada Vietnamese: cửa tò vò, giải trí (vi)

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,

     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 street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑrˈkaː.də/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ar‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• → Indonesian: arkade

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French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +‎ -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.kad/

• Audio

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Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

• → Danish: arkade
• → Dutch: arcade
• → English: arcade
• → German: Arkade
• → Norwegian Bokmål: arkade
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: arkade
• → Swedish: arkad

Further reading

• “arcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.