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Definition of Colonnade
1. Noun. Structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns.
2. Noun. A structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns.
Terms within: Arch
Specialized synonyms: Loggia
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Definition of Colonnade
1. n. A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Definition of Colonnade
1. Noun. A series of columns at regular intervals. ¹
2. Noun. peristyle ¹
3. Noun. portico, stoa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colonnade
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonnade
Literary usage of Colonnade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"The width of the colonnade was fifty feet. We measured from the western end for
... This colonnade is probably to be referred to the time of Herod the Great ..."
2. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"colonnade was remodelled ; the flutes of the columns were knocked off; the distances
... The lions' heads on the sima of the remodelled colonnade were much ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"The chief buildings are the two chapels and the colonnade. ... The memorials of
those buried here are placed in the colonnade above ; which, with the chapel ..."
4. The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of by DeCoursey Fales, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1919)
"Soon after 1809, when the famous architect Charles Bulfinch planned the construction
of many of its houses and of the colonnade before them, until the visit ..."
5. Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land by Stephen Olin (1843)
"Visit to the colonnade in the Valley north of Sebaste.—Descent from the Hill.
... Form, Extent, and probable Object of the colonnade.—History of Samaria. ..."
6. Paris Past & Present by Henry Haynie (1902)
"The colonnade of the Louvre—The HOtel des Invalides, or Home for old ...
building the “colonnade” of the Louvre at the north side of that immense structure. ..."
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