Noun: veranda
| Singular | veranda |
| Plural | verandas |
Sample Sentences
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Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out. [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Wayside Comedy”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 66:]
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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. [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:]
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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. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:]
Nouns inflected like veranda
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
An Indian English word of Indo-Portuguese origin, from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed. See: Portuguese Nouns '
varanda'.
Verbs referencing "veranda"
Czech Nouns
veranda, Danish Nouns
veranda, Dutch Nouns
veranda, Swedish Nouns
veranda, German Nouns
Veranda, Bulgarian Nouns
веранда, Ukrainian Nouns
веранда, Finnish Nouns
veranta, French Nouns
véranda, Spanish Nouns
baranda, Irish Nouns
vearanda.