Definition of exedra in English:

exedra

nounPlural exedrae ˈɛksɪdrəɪkˈsiːdrə

Architecture

1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek buildings.
〔建筑〕（尤指古罗马和希腊的家中和练身房中的）有座谈话间；有座门廊（或拱廊）
Example sentencesExamples
- When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.
- The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall.
- The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
- Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
1. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat.
  半圆形室外坐椅，龛座

Origin

Latin, from Greek ex- 'out of' + hedra 'seat'.

Definition of exedra in US English:

exedra

noun

Architecture

1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek houses and gymnasia, typically semicircular in plan.
〔建筑〕（尤指古罗马和希腊的家中和练身房中的）有座谈话间；有座门廊（或拱廊）
Example sentencesExamples
- Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra.
- When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.
- The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall.
- The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra.
1. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat.
  半圆形室外坐椅，龛座

Origin

Latin, from Greek ex- ‘out of’ + hedra ‘seat’.

词汇	exedra
释义	Definition of exedra in English: exedra nounPlural exedrae ˈɛksɪdrəɪkˈsiːdrə Architecture 1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek buildings. 〔建筑〕（尤指古罗马和希腊的家中和练身房中的）有座谈话间；有座门廊（或拱廊） Example sentencesExamples When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them. The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall. The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra. Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat. 半圆形室外坐椅，龛座 Origin Latin, from Greek ex- 'out of' + hedra 'seat'. Definition of exedra in US English: exedra noun Architecture 1A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek houses and gymnasia, typically semicircular in plan. 〔建筑〕（尤指古罗马和希腊的家中和练身房中的）有座谈话间；有座门廊（或拱廊） Example sentencesExamples Like its model, this tall octagonal building has two one-storey porticoes with some unusual Corinthian capitals and a two-storey curved exedra. When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them. The typical apartment in an insula had different rooms, segregated by function: the cubiculum or bedroom, the exedra or living room, and the medianum or central hall. The vignette that shows no walls around the city, is characterized by a semicircular road that goes round a church very similar to a colonnaded exedra. 1.1 An outdoor recess containing a seat. 半圆形室外坐椅，龛座 Origin Latin, from Greek ex- ‘out of’ + hedra ‘seat’.
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