different between explain vs esplanade

English

Etymology

From Middle English explanen, from Old French explaner, from Latin explan? (“I flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”), from ex- (“out”) + plan? (“I flatten, make level”), from planus (“level, plain”); see plain and plane. Compare esplanade, splanade. Displaced Old English ?ere??an.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sple?n/, /?k?sple?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

explain (third-person singular simple present explains, present participle explaining, simple past and past participle explained)

1. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
2. To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
3. (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
4. (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
   • April 14, 1684, John Evelyn, a letter sent to the Royal Society concerning the damage done to his gardens by the preceding winter

     The horse-chestnut is […] ready to explain its leaf.

5. (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.

Synonyms

• (give a sufficiently detailed report): expound, elaborate, recce

Derived terms

• afore-explained
• explain away
• explainer
• mansplain
• please explain
• -splain

Related terms

• explanation
• explanatory

Translations

Further reading

• explain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• explain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• explain at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

1590s, from French esplanade (“clear, level space”), from Spanish esplanada (explanada), form of esplanar (“to flatten, to make level”), from Latin expl?n?re, from which English explain; see also plain (“level area, to flatten”), and Italian spianata, from spianare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??spl??ne?d/, /??spl??n??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??spl??ne?d/, /??spl??n?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d, -??d

Noun

esplanade (plural esplanades)

1. A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
2. The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
3. A grass plat; a lawn.
4. Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; especially, a terrace by the seaside.

Synonyms

• (public walk): promenade

Related terms

• explain
• plain

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Delapenas

Danish

Etymology

French esplanade

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

esplanade c (singular definite esplanaden, plural indefinite esplanader)

1. esplanade

Declension

References

• “esplanade” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.pla.nad/

Noun

esplanade f (plural esplanades)

1. esplanade, plaza, square, piazza

Descendants

• ? English: esplanade
• ? German: Esplanade

Further reading

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