gazebo

/ɡəˈziːbəʊ/US/ɡəˈziːboʊ/

gazebo noun: a belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

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Noun

gazebo (plural gazebos or gazeboes)

A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
- Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison")Harold Williams, editor (1965), The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, volume iv, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 246
- over which is a gazebo room 10 feet square1749, William Halfpenny, New and Compleat System of Architecture, London: John Brindley, page 7
A dismountable shelter comprising a roof or awning supported by poles, and often having removable sides; a canopy tent
- They started screwing aluminium rods together, like they were going to assemble a gazebo.2018 May 15, Miriam Lord, “Repealing angels have something to hide at Leinster House”, in The Irish Times
- Canopy tents go by a lot of names: screen houses, outdoor canopies, camping shelters, day tents, camping gazebos, patio shelters, portable shelters, and (our favorite) portable gazebos.2024 April 30, Kalee Thompson, “The Best Canopy Tent for Camping and Picnics”, in Wirecutter, The New York Times
(Ireland, derogatory) a gaudy, incongruous, or flimsy structure or object
- 'I'll thank ye tell me what they mean by that old gazabo on the top of the market-place,' said she, in a burst of ridicule fit to have brought the old tower down.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries”, in Vanity Fair, London: Bradbury and Evans, page 242
- There was no garden attached to this tenement, nor was there even a good yard. People looked at it in passing by and called it a gazebo, a rattle-trap, a castle rack-rent.1879, Sarah Atkinson, Mary Aikenhead: Her Life, Her Work, and Her Friends., 1st edition, Dublin: M. H. Gill, page 191

gazebo meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Indonesian and Persian

gazebo in Malayalam

belvedere, summer house, pavilion: വേനൽക്കാലവസതി, ഗ്രീഷ്മനിവാസം, വേനൽക്കാലത്തെ കൂടാരം, കെെനില, നികുഞ്ജം, കുടീരം

gazebo in Persian

roofed structure: تارمی târomi, طارم târam, آلاچیق âlâčiq

More languagesFewer languages

gazebo in Thai: ศาลา sǎa-laa
gazebo in Vietnamese: vọng lâu

Examples of gazebo in a sentence

She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 89:
It has been a tough year in hospitality, but brave souls continue to dream big and set out their stalls delivering tasty specialty food at keen prices from horseboxes, trucks and gazebos.2024 December 20, Corinna Hardgrave, “Our restaurant reviewer’s top takeaway picks of 2024”, in The Irish Times:
She’s always making a show of herself"—and she might disconcertingly rap out at them, "What’s that gazebo you have on your head?1917 April 21, Sylvia Lynd, “Journeys End”, in The Nation, volume 21, number 3, London, page 64:
When the money was not available to redeem it, she consoled herself by saying: "It was only a bloody gazebo anyhow".1996 June 28, Ann Redmond, “Joys and sorrows of city life”, in The Irish Times:

Forms of gazebo

plural	gazebos
plural	gazeboes

Plural of gazebo: gazebos or gazeboes

Origin of gazebo

Possibly from gaze + Latin future indicative conjugation-ending -bō, as in vidēbō (“I will see”), comparable perhaps to lavabo from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”); alternatively from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba, “fort, casbah”), itself possibly refashioned after the former.

Words formed from gazebo

Words that rhyme with gazebo

Questions about gazebo

What does gazebo mean?: Gazebo means a belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
What is gazebo in Urdu?: Gazebo in Urdu is بارہ دری, چھجہ, جھروکا. See Gazebo meaning in Urdu.
How do you use gazebo in a sentence?: She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees.
What part of speech is gazebo?: Gazebo is a noun.
How do you pronounce gazebo?: Gazebo is pronounced /ɡəˈziːbəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of gazebo?: The plural of gazebo is gazebos.

Words near gazebo in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: gazebo (page history and authors); gazebo (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gazebo (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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