gazebo
pronunciation
How to pronounce gazebo in British English:
UK [gəˈzi:bəʊ]
How to pronounce gazebo in American English:
US [gəˈziboʊ]
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- Noun:
- a small roofed building affording shade and rest
Word Origin
- gazebo (n.)
- 1752, supposedly a facetious formation from gaze + -bo, Latin first person singular future tense suffix (as in videbo "I shall see"), on model of earlier belvedere "cupola," from Italian, literally "a fair sight." But according to OED perhaps rather a corruption of some oriental word.
Example
- 1. We were all crammed under this little gazebo thingy .
- 2. Once past a maze of blast walls and bored security personnel , I sit in a large gazebo near a water fountain lit by blue filtered lights .
- 3. A gazebo ? What are you , crazy ?
- 4. Complimentary dance lessons in the gazebo .
- 5. There still is gazebo of 20 much square metres outside 137 square metre .