arcade

See also: Arcade

English

An arcade covering a sidewalk (sense 1).

An arcade game (sense 3).

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ar‧cade

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     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.

2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

• amusement arcade
• arcade adventure
• arcaded
• arcade game
• arcadelike
• arcader
• arcadey
• arcadian
• arcading
• barcade
• parkade
• penny arcade
• video arcade

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: アーケード
• → Afrikaans: arcade
• → Czech: arkádové

Translations

row of arches

• Armenian: արկադային (arkadayin)
• Bulgarian: арка́да f (arkáda)
• Catalan: arcada (ca) f, porxada f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拱廊 (zh) (gǒngláng)

• Czech: arkáda f
• Danish: arkade (da) c
• Esperanto: arkado
• Finnish: kaarikäytävä (fi), arkadi (fi)
• French: arcade (fr) f
• Georgian: არკადული (arḳaduli)
• German: Arkade (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: στοά f (stoá)

• Hungarian: árkád (hu)
• Indonesian: arkade (id)
• Italian: arcata (it) f, loggiato (it) m, porticato (it) m
• Japanese: アーケード (ja) (ākēdo)
• Kyrgyz: аркада (ky) (arkada)
• Macedonian: аркада f (arkada), лакоред m (lakored)
• Malay: arked
• Manx: arcaid f
• Mongolian: аркад (arkad)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arkade m

  Nynorsk: arkade m

• Pashto: آرکیډ f
• Persian: ساباط (fa) (sâbât)
• Polish: arkada (pl) f
• Portuguese: arcada (pt) f
• Romanian: arcadă (ro) f
• Russian: арка́да (ru) f (arkáda)
• Samoan: ta'aloga ta'avale
• Sinhalese: ආර්කේඩ් (ārkēḍ)
• Spanish: arcada (es) f
• Swedish: arkad (sv) c
• Turkish: arkat (tr)
• Turkmen: arkada
• Uzbek: arkada
• Vietnamese: cửa tò vò

covered passage, usually with shops on both sides

• Bulgarian: паса́ж (bg) m (pasáž)
• Czech: pasáž (cs) f
• Dutch: winkelpassage f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kauppakuja (fi), pasaasi (fi)
• French: galerie marchande (fr) f
• German: Laube (de) f
• Greek: στοά (el) f (stoá)
• Hungarian: árkád (hu)
• Indonesian: lorong kedai, arkade (id)
• Italian: portico (it) m, porticato (it) m, sottoportico (it) m
• Japanese: 商店街 (ja) (しょうてんがい, shōtengai)
• Macedonian: пасаж m (pasaž)
• Manx: cassan coodit m
• Persian: پاساژ (fa) (pâsâž)
• Polish: pasaż (pl) m, galeria (pl) f, arkada (pl) f
• Portuguese: galeria (pt) f, arcada (pt) f
• Romanian: arcadă (ro) f, pasaj (ro) n
• Russian: пасса́ж (ru) m (passáž)
• Spanish: galería (es) f, galería comercial f
• Turkish: pasaj (tr)

establishment running coin-operated games

• Armenian: արկադային (arkadayin)
• Azerbaijani: oyun salonu
• Bavarian: spuihoin
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子遊樂場 / 电子游乐场 (diànzǐ yóulèchǎng)

• Czech: herna s herními automaty f
• Dutch: speelhal (nl) m or f, automatenhal (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: arkado
• Finnish: peliluola (fi), pelihalli (fi)
• French: salle d’arcade f
• Georgian: არკადული (arḳaduli)
• German: Spielhalle (de) f, Spielothek (de) f
• Hebrew: מקמרת
• Hungarian: árkád (hu)
• Icelandic: spilasalur
• Indonesian: dingdong
• Italian: sala giochi
• Japanese: ゲームセンター (ja) (gēmusentā)
• Korean: 게임센터 (geimsenteo)
• Kyrgyz: аркада (ky) (arkada)
• Malay: arked
• Mongolian: аркад (arkad)
• Northern Sami: speallanhálla
• Odia: ଆର୍କେଡ୍ (ārkeḍ)
• Pashto: آرکیډ f
• Polish: salon gier (pl) m
• Portuguese: fliperama (pt) (Brazil), flíper (pt) m (Brazil), salão de jogos m
• Romanian: arcadă (ro) f
• Russian: арка́да (ru) f (arkáda), галере́я игровы́х автома́тов f (galeréja igrovýx avtomátov), арка́дный центр m (arkádnyj centr)
• Samoan: ta'aloga ta'avale
• Spanish: sala de juegos f, salón recreativo (es) m
• Swedish: spelhall, arkadhall
• Tagalog: arked
• Thai: อาเขต (xāk̄het)
• Turkish: atari salonu
• Turkmen: arkada
• Uzbek: arkada
• Vietnamese: cửa tò vò, giải trí (vi)

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.
   • 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:

     […] 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, whichever way you may wish it.

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑrˈkaː.də/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ar‧ca‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• → Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arcata. By surface analysis, arc +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.kad/

• Audio:

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Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

• → Danish: arkade
• → Dutch: arcade
• → English: arcade
• → German: Arkade
• → Norwegian Bokmål: arkade
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: arkade
• → Swedish: arkad

Further reading

• “arcade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.