esplanade

1590s, from French esplanade (“clear, level space”), from Spanish esplanada (explanada), form of esplanar (“to flatten, to make level”), from Latin explānāre, from which English explain; see also plain (“level area, to flatten”), and Italian spianata, from spianare.^[1]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛspləˌneɪd/, /ˌɛspləˈnɑːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛspləˌneɪd/, /ˈɛspləˌnɑd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd, -ɑːd

esplanade (plural esplanades)

1. A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
2. The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
3. A grass plat; a lawn.
4. Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; especially, a terrace by the seaside.
5. (Texas) Grassy strips between two divided highway lanes; a traffic island.

• (public walk): promenade

• explain
• plain

• Delapenas

Borrowed from French esplanade.

• Rhymes: -aːdə

esplanade c (singular definite esplanaden, plural indefinite esplanader)

1. esplanade

• “esplanade” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.pla.nad/

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esplanade f (plural esplanades)

1. esplanade, plaza, square, piazza

• → English: esplanade
• → German: Esplanade

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