arcade

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A series of arches supported by columns, piers, or pillars, either freestanding or attached to a wall to form a gallery.
2. n. A series of arches employed for decorative purposes.
3. n. A roofed passageway or lane, especially one with shops on one or both sides.
4. n. A commercial establishment featuring rows of coin-operated games.
5. v. To provide with or form into an arcade: closed off and arcaded the narrow street.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Properly, a series of arches supported on piers or pillars. The arcade is used especially as a screen and as a support for a wall or roof, but in all architecture since the Roman it is also commonly used as an ornamental dressing to a wall. In this form it is known as a blind arcade or an arcature, and is also called wall-arcade.
2. n. A simple arched opening in a wall.
3. n. A vault or vaulted place.
4. n. Specifically, in some cities, a long arched passageway; a covered avenue, especially one that is lined with shops.
5. n. In anatomy and zoology, those portions of the cranium having an arch-like structure and running from the postero-external to the orbital region. The inferior temporal arcade corresponds to the zygoma of mammals and is largely or entirely formed by the squamosal and jugal. The superior arcade, lacking in most vertebrates, is formed by the postorbital. A. S. Woodward, Vertebrate Palæontol., p. 144. See cuts under Diapsida and Synapsida.

Wiktionary

1. n. architecture A row of arches.
2. n. architecture A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. n. gaming An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.
2. n. A long, arched building or gallery.
3. n. An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side
2. n. a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns