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An Indian English word[1][2][3] of Indo-Portuguese origin,[4] from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed.

veranda (plural verandas)

  1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. [from 18th c.]
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 66:
      Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎[1]:
      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.

roofed open gallery

  1. ^ “veranda”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ “veranda”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  3. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “veranda”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  4. ^ “veranda”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

veranda

  1. inflection of verandë:
    1. definite nominative singular
    2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

French véranda.

veranda

  1. veranda, verandah

Borrowed from English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

veranda f

  1. verandah

Via English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

veranda c (singular definite verandaen, plural indefinite verandaer)

  1. veranda

Borrowed from English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

veranda f (plural veranda's, diminutive verandaatje n)

  1. veranda

veranda (plural verandák)

  1. verandah

veranda f (plural verande)

  1. verandah, porch

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer, definite plural verandaene)

  1. a veranda or verandah (roofed open gallery)

veranda m (definite singular verandaen, indefinite plural verandaer or verandaar, definite plural verandaene or verandaane)

  1. a veranda or verandah (as above)

vèrānda f (Cyrillic spelling вѐра̄нда)

  1. verandah
  2. balcony
  3. patio

veranda f (plural verandas)

  1. veranda

en veranda

Borrowed from English veranda, from Indo-Portuguese, from Portuguese varanda.

veranda c

  1. (architecture) a porch, a veranda (outside extension of the bottom floor of a house, normally with a roof)

From French véranda.

veranda (definite accusative verandayı, plural verandalar)

  1. veranda
  2. balcony
  3. patio, porch