What does arcade mean?
Arcade means (architecture) A row of arches..
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/ɑɹˈkeɪd/ · noun
(architecture) A row of arches..
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.
[…] 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.
Use arcade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Arcade means (architecture) A row of arches..
Common synonyms include colonnade.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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