arcade
English
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An arcade covering a sidewalk (sense 1).
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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) (file) - Hyphenation: ar‧cade
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
arcade (plural arcades)
- (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.
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- (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
- 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
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covered passage, usually with shops on both sides
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establishment running coin-operated games
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Verb
arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)
- (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
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French arcade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑrˈkaː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ar‧ca‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun
arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)
- (architecture) arcade (array of arches)
Derived terms
- arcadehal
Descendants
- → Indonesian: arkade
French
Etymology
Italian arcata, equivalent to arc + -ade
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʁ.kad/
Audio (file)
Noun
arcade f (plural arcades)
- (architecture) arcade
- (anatomy) arch, ridge
- (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.