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grape arbor

grape arbor

1 5.7
A wooden frame covered with grapevines that gives shade in a garden
  • noun
  • /ɡreɪp ˈɑːbər/
  • US
translation icon : pergola de uvas
  • The sun shone brightly as we relaxed beneath the grape arbor, enjoying the shade it provided.
  • the grape arbor and back porch
  • grape arbor out back

Examples

  • We have a lovely garden, citrus and fig trees, a grape arbor.

    Blog text (14)

  • The girls led them around back, into a courtyard of hard dirt and chewed-down grass under a grape arbor covered with a broad sheet of grayish plastic.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The grape arbor had come with the property when they moved to this town.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • When he needs fresh air, he paces around, beneath a grape arbor.

    Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • "I waited at the grape arbor while they examined Amedee."

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Gerita, Leon, and I found Yvonne in the grape arbor out back.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The spring was dredged to make a small pool and encircled with a neat brick patio, which was enclosed, in turn, by the full circle of a grape arbor.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Her gaze returns to the paddock beyond the grape arbor, a snarl of leafless vines in spring.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Ashley, her gray coat almost luminescent in the last light, is galloping around the paddock by the grape arbor, swerving now and then in a manner that is not usual.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The trestle table was set out under the Concord grape arbor, and she had to go back and forth to the house with platters of spaghetti and big tureens of puttanesca sauce.

    Fiction book (1997)

Surface Forms

grape arbor singular
grape arbors plural

Morphology

grape + arbor

The meaning is directly compositional: 'grape' specifies the type of vines and 'arbor' names the constructed framework, so a learner who knows both words can infer a shelter or trellis covered with grapevines. This noun–noun compound follows a common, literal pattern found across languages, making the phrase immediately understandable to B1 learners who know the constituents.

Etymology

Grape arbor comes from gardeners building a wooden frame called an arbor for grape vines to climb. The vines made a green roof with hanging fruit and cool shade, so the phrase means 'a shelter covered in grapevines'.