promenade

Borrowed from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒmənɑːd/, /pɹɒməˈnɑːd/, (rare) /ˈpɹɒməneɪd/, /pɹɒməˈneɪd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹɑməˈneɪd/, /pɹɑməˈnɑd/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd, -eɪd

promenade (plural promenades)

1. (formal) A prom (dance).
2. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

3. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:

     The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

     By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

4. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

• (a place to walk): esplanade

promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)

1. To walk for amusement, show, or exercise.
2. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

• promenader (agent noun)

• open-armed

Borrowed from French promenade.

• IPA^(key): /ˌproː.məˈnaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧me‧na‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

promenade f (plural promenades or promenaden)

1. promenade

promener +‎ -ade.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔm.nad/

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• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: promenades

promenade f (plural promenades)

1. walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)

• “promenade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).