[vuh-ran-duh] 
| 1. | Also, ve⋅ran⋅dah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery. |
| 2. | piazza. |
| ve·ran·da or ve·ran·dah (və-rān'də) n. A porch or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building. Also called regionally gallery. [Hindi varaṇḍā, probably from Portuguese varanda (perhaps ultimately from Vulgar Latin *barra, barrier, bar).] |
veranda
in architecture, most frequently, an open-walled, roofed porch attached to the exterior of a domestic structure and usually surrounded by a railing. The word came into English through the Hindi varanda, but it is related to the Spanish baranda, meaning "railing," and thus most likely entered Hindi via Portuguese explorers of India.
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