arcade meaning

• Noun: arcade  aa(r)'keyd
  1. A covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side 
  2. A structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns
     - colonnade

  Derived forms: arcades

  Type of: construction, passageway, structure

  Encyclopedia: Arcade, GA Arcade, Georgia Arcade Arcade, California Arcade, Italy Arcade, The Arcade, adult video Arcade, NY Arcade, New York

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  [Architecture]
  1.

  A line of counterthrusting arches raised on columns or piers. Also see blind arcade, coupled arcade, interlacing arcade, intersecting arcade, surface arcade, wall arcade.

  2.

  A covered walk with a line of such arches along one or both long sides.

  3.

  A covered walk with shops and offices along one side, and a line of such arches on the other. Also see stoa.

  4.

  A covered walk, lit from the top, lined with shops or offices on one or more levels.

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  [Business]
  AmE / noun [C] (BrE)

  a large building with a number of shops/stores in it:

  a shopping arcade

• 
  [Medicine]
  n
  1 : an anatomical structure comprising a series of arches
  2 : DENTAL ARCH
  
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  [Computer]
  <networking> A UK BBS for the Acorn Archimedes. Also has links with Demon Internet.
  
  Telephone: [phone] (24hrs, most speeds).

• One can walk in the shade of the arcade when the sun is hot.
• The expensive shops in a famous arcade near piccadilly were just opening.
• The arcade was popular with shoppers because it gave them protection from the summer sun and the winter rain.
• The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its horn blaring, roared down the arcade.
• The arcade, cyberport receives design award
• Shop 103-4, man yee arcade, 60-68 des voeux road central
• arcade games, computer games and multi-media games
• Introduction : arcade simulation games, so terrific
• The arcade-ocean view court renting area 340m
• arcade : are you all the full-time musician

• "arcade" meaning in Chinese: n. 1.【建筑】拱廊，连拱廊。2.有拱廊[骑楼]的街道〔两边多有店铺〕。
• "arcade" meaning in Japanese: arcade n. (屋根のある)商店街, アーケード. 【形容詞 名詞＋】 ◆We walked along th...
• "arcade" meaning in Russian: 1) пассаж (с магазинами)2) галерея игровых автоматов3) _ар...
• "arcade" meaning in French: n. arcade; de façon convexe, passage en arc