Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rooflike structure, often made of canvas or plastic, that serves as a shelter, as over a storefront, window, door, or deck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A movable roof-like covering of canvas or other cloth spread over any place, or in front of a window, door, etc., as a protection from the sun's rays.
Wiktionary
- n. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
- n. nautical That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
- n. (Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun
Etymologies
- 1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans ‘sloping roof’, from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)banno (“eaves”) (compare Provençal ambans ‘parapet’), compound of ande ‘intensive prefix’ (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) and banno ‘horn’ (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann). (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The awning is dusty and worn and the two windows facing the street are obscured with neon beer signs.”
“And that reminds me that the decorum of sea-bathing in the 'fifties was promoted by the apparatus known as the awning, attached to bathing machines.”
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“In Tehuantepec, tianguis - street markets, named for the Nahuatl word for "awning" - are held on Sundays and Wednesdays.”
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“The awning is a new addition, a nod to the changing demographic of the nabe.”
“Next to the van beneath the awning was a mass of machinery, man-high wheels and pulleys and a clattering steam engine, and Cicero saw that it was drawing in the upper pair of cables, and paying out the lower.”
“Beneath the awning was a yellow wooden door with no knob, just a covered steel slot at eye level.”
“For the last, he vividly tells us, Wee did hang an awning, which is an old saile, to three or foure trees to shadow us from the Sunne; our walls were railes of wood; our seates unhewed trees till we cut plankes; our Pulpit a bar of wood nailed to two neighbouring trees.”
“When it rains, I shove out an awning, which is mighty good business.”
“Under the awning was a glimpse of light draperies, and, as Pietro's gondola drew near, the young men could hear a fresh, girlish voice reading aloud.”
“The arm of the awning is the only thing that stopped it hitting us.”
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Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
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