arcade
Syllables: ar·cade/ɑːˈkeɪd//ɑɹˈkeɪd/
arcade noun: a row of arches. Also the clipping of amusement arcade.
Noun
arcade (plural arcades)
- A row of arches.
- 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.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31
- A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
Verb
arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)
- To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
- […] 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...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
Also used as
arcade is also the clipping of amusement arcade.
arcade meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
arcade in Hindi
- आर्केड, आर्कैड
arcade in Marathi
- आर्केड, आरकेड
arcade in Urdu
- آرکیڈ
arcade in Bengali
- আর্কেড
More languagesFewer languages
- arcade in Telugu
- ఆర్కేడ్, ఆర్కాడ్
- arcade in Malayalam
- ആർക്കേഡ്, ആർകേഡ്, അർക്കേഡ്
- arcade in Kannada
- ಆರ್ಕೇಡ್, ಆರ್ಕಾಡ್
- arcade in Punjabi
- ਆਰਕੇਡ, ਆਰ੍ਕੇਡ, ਅਰਕੇਡ
- arcade in Gujarati
- આર્કેડ
- arcade in Odia
- ଆର୍କେଡ୍, ଆର୍କେଡ, ଆର୍କେଡ଼
- arcade in Sinhala
- ආර්කේඩ් ārkēḍ
- arcade in Nepali
- आर्केड
- arcade in Pashto
- آرکیډ
- arcade in Malay
- arked
- arcade in Indonesian
- arkade, lorong kedai
- arcade in Persian
- ساباط sâbât, طاقی tāqi, دالان dālān, کوتار kutār
- arcade in Vietnamese
- cửa tò vò
Examples of arcade in a sentence
- I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
- The young boy liked to throw money away at the video arcade and candy store.
- Dusty left the taproom of the tavern and wandered into the small arcade in back.
Forms of arcade
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | arcades |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | arcades |
| present participle | arcading |
| past participle | arcaded |
| past | arcaded |
Origin of arcade
Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“the arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“an arc”). Not etymologically related to Arcadia.
Words formed from arcade
Phrases with arcade
Words that rhyme with arcade
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about arcade
- What does arcade mean?
- Arcade means a row of arches.
- What is arcade in Hindi?
- Arcade in Hindi is आर्केड, आर्कैड. See Arcade meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is arcade?
- Arcade can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce arcade?
- Arcade is pronounced /ɑɹˈkeɪd/ (US).
- What is the plural of arcade?
- The plural of arcade is arcades.
Words near arcade in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: arcade (page history and authors); arcade (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); arcade (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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