verandah

«verandah» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: veranda — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

veranda

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A roofed floor along the outside of a house, open to the air. tree →

how it differs from today

An older spelling of "veranda," which is now the usual spelling; the sense is the same as today.

examples

• Then Helga stood again in the verandah. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• In the verandah, among the flowers, she and George stood together; the rose-bushes concealed them. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

verandah

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 7 (Torah 0, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «verandah» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.