Definitions for exedra

exedra ex·e·dra

Spelling: [ek-si-druh, ek-see-]
IPA: /ˈɛk sɪ drə, ɛkˈsi-/

Exedra is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in exedra (adeerx).

Definitions for exedra

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a room or covered area open on one side, used as a meeting place.
  2. a permanent outdoor bench, semicircular in plan and having a high back.

Origin of exedra

1700-10; Latin: hall furnished with seats Greek exédra (covered) walk with seats, equivalent to ex- ex-3 + (h)édra seat, bench

Examples for exedra

The adjoining triclinium, entered by a door from the exedra, had also three paintings, one of which however is almost destroyed.

Laodice flung her hands over her face and shrank in an agony of shame down upon the exedra.

He led her to the exedra, unslung his wallet and laid it on the lectern before them.

Lounging on an exedra was a young woman in a woolen chiton, barefoot and trifling with the Greek ampyx that bound her golden hair.

Amaryllis sat in her ivory chair; opposite her in the exedra was Philadelphus.

There was also a little fountain in the exedra at the rear of the peristyle.

In shelter behind the exedra she halted, fended from him by the marble seat.

The idler in the exedra, meanwhile, was awaiting the speech of her visitor.

At the rear there was often a broad, deep recess, exedra, corresponding with the tablinum.

F, F, exedra in which there were seats for the philosophers to hold their conversations.

Word Value for exedra
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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