Arcade vs Promenade - What's the difference?
arcade | promenade |
(architecture) A row of arches.
(architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
(gaming) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.
(label) A prom (dance).
A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
* 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
To walk.
To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
As nouns the difference between arcade and promenade
is that arcade is a row of arches while promenade is a prom dance.As a verb promenade is
to walk.arcade
English
(wikipedia arcade)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
() * arcaded * arcadian * arcading * arcade game * penny arcadepromenade
English
(wikipedia promenade)Noun
(en noun)- The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
George Goodchild