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colonnade
/ˌkɑləˈneɪd/
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kol-uh-NAYD: save the main stress for the end.
The last syllable rhymes with “made.” The double n does not require two separate n sounds or a pause.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“A long colonnade connected the two courtyards.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does colonnade mean?
noun
- A series of columns at regular intervals.
- A peristyle.
- A portico or stoa.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A regular row of anything, such as trees.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌkɑləˈneɪd/
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These he sold for slaves, and with the money, as if to insult over them, built a colonnade at Megalopolis.
On the opposite side of the courtyard, under a colonnade, was extensive standing--for carriages--where, indeed, some carriages of Monseigneur yet stood.
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She caught him by the arm, and drew him away from the crowded colonnade into the solitary middle space of the square.
Halfway up the big colonnade of elms, where the Grove rose highest above the river, their forward movement faltered to an end.
Two very large teepees were pitched facing one another, a hundred feet apart, half open, and connected by a roofless hall or colonnade of fresh-cut boughs.