arcade

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

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

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• Hyphenation: ar‧cade

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

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. An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

• → Japanese: アーケード
• → Afrikaans: arcade
• → Czech: arkádové

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, chapter 25, in The Death Shot,‎, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, 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 street—

• adarce, araced

Borrowed from French arcade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑrˈkaː.də/

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

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

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

• arcadehal

• → Indonesian: arkade

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

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.kad/

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arcade f (plural arcades)

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

• arcade sourcilière

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