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Veranda

An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.

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Porch 76% connected

A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting w…

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Gallery 92% connected

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Adjoining adjective · 78% connection

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.

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Adoors unknown · 78% connection

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.

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Atrium noun · 78% connection

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name w…

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Bank noun · 78% connection

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: open, roofed, gallery, portico, adjoining.
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Cortile noun · 78% connection

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

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Demesne noun · 78% connection

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: open, roofed, gallery, portico, adjoining.
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Door noun · 78% connection

a room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"

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Doorway noun · 78% connection

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

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Drawing-room noun · 78% connection

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

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Heading noun · 78% connection

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

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Home noun · 78% connection

One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one'…

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Homestead noun · 78% connection

dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: open, roofed, gallery, portico, adjoining.
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House noun · 78% connection

a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the…

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