Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A veranda or roofed patio.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Hawaii, a bower, piazza, or porch.
Wiktionary
- n. A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an island in the Hawaiian chain.
- n. Hawaii a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an island of central Hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
- n. a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room
Etymologies
- From Hawaiian lanai. (Wiktionary)
- Hawaiian lānai. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Originally, a lanai was a lush Hawaiian-style porch entered through sliding doors from the living room, giving a sense of unbroken living space.”
“Another highlight is the kitchen, which replaced what Pickell called a lanai or lean-to that was the family room and connection to the pool room.”
“This is the view from our balcony which one is required by law to call a "lanai" in Hawai'i.”
“About the size of a city lot and with 2 fellows there to greet you and help land your boat, we stumbled ashore over the coral and sat on the veranda ( 'lanai' to the locals) of a small rental 'cabin' and ate our PB and J sandwiches with our plantains and diet colas ..... how's that for mixing cultures?”
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“Located at 72-122 Lau'eki Street, the property features a gated center courtyard leading to the main residence, which includes an expansive master suite, great room, kitchen, dining room, outdoor "lanai" living area, and infinity pool with spa overlooking the Hualalai Golf Course and the Pacific Ocean.”
“The lanai is the favorite reception room, and here at any social function the musical program is given and cakes and ices are served; here morning callers are received, or gay riding parties, the ladies in pretty divided skirts, worn for convenience in riding astride,”
“Yet here she was, fresh from a shower, greeting Noble in her pumps and gold earrings for drinks on the lanai.”
“One of the full-timers from Ohio called out from his lanai.”
“Sometimes, during the traverse, looking ahead and anticipating the delightful lanai luncheons and dinners of Hawaii”
“Yet he knew them all -- gliding and revolving there on the broad lanai of the Seaside, the officers in their fresh-starched uniforms of white, the civilians in white and black, and the women bare of shoulders and arms.”
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lanai’.
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Mahalo Hawaiʻi
The triggerfish humuhumunukunukuapuaa belongs on this list too.
ʻokina, U+02BB, mahalo, aloha, Liliuokalani, nene, a'a, muumuu, Pineapple Express, Northwestern Hawa..., Malia, Leilani and 123 more...
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Damieng's Words
lupine, sapor, boz imp, imp, ovine, saracen, haberdashery, tiebar, shill, cutler, cutaway, lucite and 218 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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"L"-words
logolepsy, logolept, lethologica, lucubrate, laodicean, lanai, languor, lanate, lacinate, lacination
Tweets
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nycanthro Always makes me think of Blanche Devereaux carrying a tray of ice tea. Feb 28, 2009
chained_bear Seen on HGTV. Nov 20, 2008