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Courtyard vs Verandah - What's the difference?

courtyard | verandah |

As nouns the difference between courtyard and verandah

is that courtyard is an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings while verandah is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

courtyard

English

(wikipedia courtyard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • an area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings
    • She sat in the courtyard , enjoying the garden.

    See also

    * atrium * forecourt * court * yard

    verandah

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :
    • and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah , or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2 citation
    • , passage=There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky?: a black night and very silent on Cimiez?; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah