arcade

See also: Arcade

English

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arcade

Wikipedia

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ärkād, (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ar‧cade

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     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.

2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. Synonym of amusement arcade.

Derived terms

• amusement arcade
• arcade adventure
• arcaded
• arcade game
• arcadelike
• arcader
• arcadey
• arcadian
• arcading
• barcade
• parkade
• penny arcade
• video arcade

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: arcade
• → Czech: arkádové
• → Japanese: アーケード (ākēdo)
• → Korean: 아케이드 (akeideu)

Translations

row of arches

Armenian: արկադային (arkadayin) Bulgarian: арка́да f (arkáda) Catalan: arcada (ca) f, porxada f Chinese: Mandarin: 拱廊 (zh) (gǒngláng) Czech: arkáda f Danish: arkade (da) c Esperanto: arkado Finnish: kaarikäytävä (fi), arkadi (fi) French: arcade (fr) f Georgian: არკადა (ka) (arḳada), თაღოვანი გალერეა (taɣovani galerea) German: Arkade (de) f Greek: Ancient: στοά f (stoá) Hungarian: árkád (hu) Indonesian: arkade (id) Italian: arcata (it) f, loggiato (it) m, porticato (it) m Japanese: アーケード (ja) (ākēdo) Korean: 아케이드 (akeideu) Kyrgyz: аркада (ky) (arkada) Macedonian: аркада f (arkada), лакоред m (lakored) Malay: arked Manx: arcaid f Mongolian: аркад (arkad) Norwegian: Bokmål: arkade m Nynorsk: arkade m Pashto: آرکیډ f Persian: ساباط (fa) (sâbât), طاقی (fa) (tāqi), دالان (fa) (dālān), کوتار (fa) (kutār) (for a small street) Polish: arkada (pl) f Portuguese: arcada (pt) f Romanian: arcadă (ro) f Russian: арка́да (ru) f (arkáda) Samoan: ta'aloga ta'avale Sinhalese: ආර්කේඩ් (ārkēḍ) Spanish: arcada (es) f Swedish: arkad (sv) c Turkish: arkat (tr) Turkmen: arkada Uzbek: arkada Vietnamese: cửa tò vò

covered passage, usually with shops on both sides

Bulgarian: паса́ж (bg) m (pasáž) Czech: pasáž (cs) f Dutch: winkelpassage f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kauppakuja (fi), pasaasi (fi) French: galerie marchande (fr) f Georgian: პასაჟი (ka) (ṗasaži) German: Laube (de) f Greek: στοά (el) f (stoá) Hungarian: árkád (hu) Indonesian: lorong kedai, arkade (id) Italian: portico (it) m, porticato (it) m, sottoportico (it) m Japanese: 商店街 (ja) (しょうてんがい, shōtengai) Macedonian: пасаж m (pasaž) Manx: cassan coodit m Persian: پاساژ (fa) (pâsâž) Polish: pasaż (pl) m, galeria (pl) f, arkada (pl) f Portuguese: galeria (pt) f, arcada (pt) f Romanian: arcadă (ro) f, pasaj (ro) n Russian: пасса́ж (ru) m (passáž) Spanish: galería (es) f, galería comercial f Turkish: pasaj (tr)

establishment running coin-operated games — see amusement arcade

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
   • 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:

     […] 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.

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑrˈkaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• → Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arcata. By surface analysis, arc +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.kad/

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Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

• → Danish: arkade
• → Dutch: arcade
• → English: arcade
• → German: Arkade
• → Norwegian Bokmål: arkade
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: arkade
• → Swedish: arkad

Further reading

• “arcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

arcade

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈkade/ [aɾˈka.ð̞e], /aɾˈkeid/ [aɾˈkei̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -ade, -eid
• Syllabification: ar‧ca‧de

Noun

arcade m (plural arcades)

1. amusement arcade

   Synonym: arcadia

Further reading

• arcade | Diccionario • DELE Ahora