VERANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does veranda mean? 

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

1. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gallery; veranda; verandah

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

porch (a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "veranda"):

lanai (a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room)

 Context examples 

"May I come in?" boomed a voice from the veranda.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other side was the door which communicated with the veranda.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spent his day, as the manager described it to me, upon a lounge-chair on the veranda, with an attendant lady upon either side of him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The idea, however, that he might have an appointment at so strange an hour never occurred to me until a faint sound reached my ears from the veranda outside.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The whole garden was alive with people, and one fellow raised a view-halloa as we emerged from the veranda and followed hard at our heels.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)