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gazebo

UK/ɡəˈziːbəʊ/US/ɡəˈziːboʊ/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,659 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: gazebos

A gazebo is a small open garden building to sit in. Build a gazebo, sit in the gazebo, a wooden gazebo.

It is open on the sides, which is what separates it from a summerhouse, and it is placed for the view rather than for shelter. The name may be a joke: gaze with a mock-Latin ending, so that it means I shall gaze.

Oleg Yu.Novikov · CC BY 3.0

Definitions of gazebo

  1. 1noungazeboA small open garden building to sit in.B2+

    “They had tea in the white wooden gazebo at the bottom of the garden.”

gazebo is a building.

Where it comes from

Possibly a mock-Latin coinage from gaze plus the Latin future ending -bo, so that it means I shall gaze.

  1. Arabic

    قَصَبَة — fort, casbah

  2. Latin

    lavābō — I will wash

  3. English, today

    gazebo

Built from

  • vidēbō · Latin — I will see

Possibly from gaze + Latin - future indicative conjugation-ending -bō, as in vidēbō (“I will see”), comparable perhaps to lavabo from Latin lavābō (“I will wash”); alternatively from Arabic قَصَبَة (“fort, casbah”), itself possibly refashioned after the former.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Buildings & Architecture

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gazebo in the wild

  • A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden, or spacious public area.

    Gazebo

  • Canopies can also stand alone, such as a fabric covered gazebo or cabana.

    Canopy (architecture)

  • The Bowser Gazebo is a historic gazebo at 25 Linden Street in Reading, Massachusetts.

    Bowser Gazebo

  • The gazebo was designed by architect Horace G.

    Bowser Gazebo

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.