different between verandah vs foyer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v???ænd?/

Noun

verandah (plural verandahs)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Alternative spelling of veranda
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion:

     […] and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer (“hearth, lobby”), in turn from Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, from Late Latin foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”). Cognate with Spanish hogar (“home”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /?f??.e?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???/; also IPA^(key): /?f??.e?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?fo??/

Noun

foyer (plural foyers)

1. A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.

   We had a drink in the foyer waiting for the play to start.

2. The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
3. (Britain) A hostel offering accommodation and work opportunities to homeless young people.

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Noun

foyer m

1. theater lobby, foyer.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French foier, from Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, from Late Latin foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???je?/
• Hyphenation: foy?er
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers, diminutive foyertje n)

1. foyer (lobby, waiting room or parlour)

Related terms

• focus

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *foc?rium, nominalization of the Late Latin adjective foc?rius, from Latin focus (“hearth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa.je/

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers)

1. hearth
2. lobby, foyer
3. home, domicile
4. household
5. source, centre, seat

Derived terms

• homme au foyer
• femme au foyer

Related terms

• feu

Descendants

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

From French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa?j?/

Noun

foyer n (indeclinable)

1. foyer (lobby, corridor, or waiting room)

Further reading

• foyer in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• foyer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?aj??/

Noun

foyer m (genitive singular foyeru, nominative plural foyery, genitive plural foyerov, declension pattern of dub)
foyer n

1. foyer

Declension

Usage notes

• When used in the neuter gender, the word is indeclineable.

Further reading

• foyer in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foyer or French foyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwa?je/, [fwa?je]

Noun

foyer m (plural foyers or foyer)

1. foyer