Arcade Meaning
/ɑɹˈkeɪd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA row of arches.
nounA covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
Sentence Examples
The shopping arcade was covered with lots of paper decorations.
Sami walked into the arcade.
CEFR Practice Quiz
On rainy days, the children loved to play games at the local ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The kids spent the afternoon playing games at the local video ____.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcus Italian arcatabor. French arcadeubor. English arcade Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymlogically related to Arcadia.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches."
— 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
"[…] its trottoirs brick-paved and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage—conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China”—these in places completely arcading the streets—the town of Nachitoches offered the aspect of a rus in urbe, or urbs in rure, whichever way you may wish it."
— 1873, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Choice of Sons-in-Law”, in The Death Shot. A Romance of Forest and Prairie. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 224:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
On rainy days, the children loved to play games at the local ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The kids spent the afternoon playing games at the local video ____.