What does "veranda" mean?

A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.

What is a synonym for "veranda"?

Common synonyms include: balconies, balcony, deck, gallery, lanai, loggia.

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Noun

1
A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.
"Boulte ate his breakfast, advised her to see her Arab pony fed in the veranda, and went out."
2
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) wordnet

"I left some scallions out on the veranda for too long and they dried out."

An Indian English word of Indo-Portuguese origin, from Portuguese varanda (“balustrade; balcony”). Further etymology is unclear and disputed.