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–noun

1.	Architecture. a series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof. Compare arcade.

2.	a series of trees planted in a long row, as on each side of a driveway or road.

[Origin: 1710–20; < F, equiv. to colonne column + -ade -ade¹, on the model of It colonnato

]

—Related forms

col·on·nad·ed, adjective

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n. Architecture

A series of columns placed at regular intervals.
A structure composed of columns placed at regular intervals.

[French, alteration of colonnate, from Italian colonnato, from colonna, column, from Latin columna; see kel-² in Indo-European roots.]

col'on·nad'ed adj.

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colonnade

1718, from Fr. colonnade, from It. colonnato, from colonna, from L. columna "pillar" (see hill).

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colonnade
noun
1.	structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
2.	a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns [syn: arcade]

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colonnade [koləˈneid] noun

a row of pillars

Arabic:	صَف أعْمِدَه
Chinese (Simplified):	一行柱子, 柱廊
Chinese (Traditional):	一行柱子, 柱廊
Czech:	kolonáda, sloupoví
Danish:	kolonnade; søjlegang
Dutch:	zuilenrij
Estonian:	sammastik
Finnish:	pylväsrivi
French:	colonnade
German:	die Kolonade
Greek:	κιονοστοιχία
Hungarian:	oszlopsor
Icelandic:	súlnaröð; súlnagöng
Indonesian:	sebaris pilar
Italian:	colonnato

Japanese:	柱廊
Korean:	열주(列柱)
Latvian:	kolonāde
Lithuanian:	kolonada
Norwegian:	søylegang
Polish:	kolumnada
Portuguese (Brazil):	colunata
Portuguese (Portugal):	colunata
Romanian:	colonadă
Russian:	колоннада
Slovak:	kolonáda
Slovenian:	stebrišče
Spanish:	columnata
Swedish:	kolonnad
Turkish:	revak, sıra sütunlar

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Colonnade

Col`on*nade"\, n. [F. colonnade, It. colonnata, fr. colonna column. See Colonel.] (Arch.) A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

Note: When in front of a building, it is called a portico; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.

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