pergola
UK/ˈpɜːɡələ/US/ˈpɜɹɡələ/
pergola noun: a framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
Noun
pergola (plural pergolas or pergole)
- A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
- The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous...1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 61
- Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
Proper noun capitalized: Pergola
Pergola (plural Pergolas)
- A surname from Italian.
pergola meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Indonesian
pergola in Tamil
- விதானகம்
pergola in Bengali
- লতার জন্য কাঠের ছাউনি
pergola in Kannada
- ಬಳ್ಳಿಮನೆ, ಲತಾಮಂಟಪ, ಬಳ್ಳಿ, ಚಪ್ಪರ, ಲತಾಕುಂಜ, ಪೊದರ್ವನೆ
pergola in Indonesian
- framework
- pergola
More languagesFewer languages
- pergola in Persian
- چفته čefte, داربست dārbast, وادیج vādij
Examples of pergola in a sentence
- While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.2000, Gordon Bock, "Pergolas in perspective", Old-House Journal, July/August 2000
- It was the cloth-draped pergola under which a very special birthday dinner was served.2009, Jerri Farris, Creating Garden Accents: Step-by-Step Instructions for 22 Projects, Creative Publishing International, published 2002...
Forms of pergola
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pergolas |
| plural | pergole |
| alternative form | pergula |
| alternative form (dated) | pergolo |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pergolas |
Origin of pergola
Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.
Borrowed from Italian Pergola.
Words formed from pergola
Questions about pergola
- What does pergola mean?
- Pergola means a framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
- What is pergola in Tamil?
- Pergola in Tamil is விதானகம். See Pergola meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use pergola in a sentence?
- While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.
- What part of speech is pergola?
- Pergola can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pergola?
- Pergola is pronounced /ˈpɜːɡələ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pergola?
- The plural of pergola is pergolas.
Words near pergola in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pergola (page history and authors); Pergola (page history and authors); pergola (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pergola (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pergola (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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