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noun
- 1. a room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek buildings.
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An exedra (pl.: exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing.
The meaning of EXEDRA is a room (as in a temple or house) in ancient Greece and Rome used for conversation and formed by an open or columned recess often semicircular in shape and furnished with seats.
Exedra, in architecture, semicircular or rectangular niche with a raised seat; more loosely applied, the term also refers to the apse (q.v.) of a church or to a niche therein. In ancient Greece exedrae were commonly found in the parts of major cities that had been reserved for worship, such as the.
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exedra in American English. (ˈeksɪdrə, ekˈsi-) noun Word forms: plural exedrae (ˈeksɪˌdri, ekˈsidri) 1. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a room or covered area open on one side, used as a meeting place. 2. a permanent outdoor bench, semicircular in plan and having a high back. Also: exhedra.
ex·e·dra. (ĕk′sĭ-drə, ĭk-sē′-) n. 1. A usually curved outdoor bench with a high back. 2. An often semicircular portico with seats that was used in ancient Greece and Rome as a place for discussions. [Latin, from Greek exedrā : ex-, ex- + hedrā, seat; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]
A room or covered area open on one side and provided with seats, used as a meeting place in ancient Greece and Rome. Also, a large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church, normally on the main axis.
What does the noun exedra mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun exedra. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. exedra. classical history (early 1700s) architecture (early 1700s) religion (early 1700s) OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions.
