AWNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awning mean? 

• AWNING (noun)
  The noun AWNING has 1 sense:

1. a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun

  Familiarity information: AWNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

awning; sunblind; sunshade

Hypernyms ("awning" is a kind of...):

canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)

 Context examples 

Then he remembered seeing similar grand ladies and gowns entering the London theatres while he stood and watched and the policemen shoved him back into the drizzle beyond the awning.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was looking back round the awning of the cart, and wondered what business it was of his.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hunters possibly no more than tolerated me, though none of them disliked me; while Smoke and Henderson, convalescent under a deck awning and swinging day and night in their hammocks, assured me that I was better than any hospital nurse, and that they would not forget me at the end of the voyage when they were paid off.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In those days, climbing up the iron ladders out the pit of stifling heat, he had often caught glimpses of the passengers, in cool white, doing nothing but enjoy themselves, under awnings spread to keep the sun and wind away from them, with subservient stewards taking care of their every want and whim, and it had seemed to him that the realm in which they moved and had their being was nothing else than paradise.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)