different between promenade vs boulevard

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

promenade (plural promenades)

1. (formal) A prom (dance).
2. A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

3. A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:

     The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
4. A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

Synonyms

• (a place to walk): esplanade

Translations

Verb

promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)

1. To walk for amusement, show, or exercise.
2. To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.

Derived terms

• promenader (agent noun)

Translations

Anagrams

• open-armed

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French promenade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pro?.m??na?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pro?me?na?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades or promenaden)

1. promenade

French

Etymology

promener +? -ade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??m.nad/
• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: promenades

Noun

promenade f (plural promenades)

1. walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)

Derived terms

• promenade de santé

Descendants

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bu?.l??v??d/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?l?v??d/

Noun

boulevard (plural boulevards)

1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): blvd., blvd, bd., bd, bl

Related terms

• boulevardier
• bulwark (doublet)

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, borrowed from Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bolværk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?ul?????d?]

Noun

boulevard

1. boulevard

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French bolevard, from Middle Dutch bolwerc (modern Dutch bolwerk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu.l??va?r/
• Hyphenation: bou?le?vard

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards, diminutive boulevardje n)

1. boulevard

Derived terms

• meubelboulevard
• woonboulevard

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bulevar

French

Etymology

From Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.va?/

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. causeway
2. boulevard

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): (Europe): bd, Bd, bld, brd, bvd; (Québec): boul., boul

Descendants

• ? Spanish: bulevar
• ? Turkish: bulvar

Further reading

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

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bollevart (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from German Bollwerk or Middle Dutch.

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. (Jersey) bulwark

Spanish

Etymology

From French boulevard. Doublet of baluarte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bule?ba?d/, [bu.le???a?ð?]

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. boulevard