colonnaded
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˌkɒləˈneɪdɪd/
- Specialized
:
columnado
- The ancient temple featured a stunning colonnaded entrance, inviting visitors to explore its sacred grounds.
- a colonnaded porch
- a colonnaded building
Examples
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Light pours in through a colonnaded sunken porch to the right.
Academic text (2007) -
Tourists often gather at the colonnaded plaza to take pictures of the beautiful architecture.
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We never see colonnaded streets in Rome or in Italy, but we do see them quite extensively in the provinces.
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Among the digging findings are the Colonnaded Street, Temples, the City Walls, and the Theater, as well as private buildings.
Academic text (2000) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Illegal buildings loom over Jogeshwari's colonnaded porch.
Academic text (2007) -
The Romans enlarged the theatre, paved the Colonnaded Street, and built a triumphal arch over the entrance to the Siq.
Academic text (2008) -
It was only the second class to be graduated from the colonnaded Academy that rose up brick-new on the road to Vicksburg, and here she walked with the authority of an empress.
Fiction book (1995) -
The next morning, I was early for the 9:30 opening of a travel agency on Connaught Place, the colonnaded circle built during the latter years of the Raj to bring some purpose to the untenable chaos of the city.
Fiction book (1996) -
I stood on a grand colonnaded balcony that in antiquity looked out over the sea and gazed at brightly colored mosaics that years before had moss growing between their tesserae.
Academic text (2003) -
As I walked through the colonnaded gallery, I admired the intricate carvings on each pillar.
Synonyms
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6.4
Tall and shaped like a pillar or arranged in vertical rows
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4.6
Having tall pillars, often at the front of a building
Having tall straight posts that support or decorate a building
Having columns all around a building or courtyard
A building with a single row of columns on all sides
A building like a temple with columns at both ends
How Columned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Colonnaded comes from the simple word column ('pillar') and from colonnade, which means a row of such pillars. So a colonnaded building or walkway 'has' a line of pillars that often make a covered path or a decorative front.