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    esplanade

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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    es·pla·nade /ˌespləˈneɪd $ ˈesplənɑːd/ noun [countable]  especially British EnglishTTR a wide street next to the sea in a town 滨海大街
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    esplanade• Beach and esplanade include croquet, tennis and water sports centre.• Al-Aqsa is one of the two mosques on the Haram al-Sharif esplanade in Jerusalem.• Along the esplanade, countless cafés, and tempting ice-cream parlours vie for attention.• The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle.• We walked up the slope and on to the esplanade.    Origin esplanade (1600-1700) French Italian spianata, from spianare “to make level”, from Latin explanare; → EXPLAIN
    es·pla·nade nounChineseSyllable
    a street wide next to sea the Corpus


    esplanade
    es‧pla‧nade /ˌespləˈneɪd $ ˈesplənɑːd/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: French
     Origin: Italian spianata, from spianare 'to make level', from Latin explanare; ⇨ explain
    especially British English a wide street next to the sea in a town


    es·plan·adeBrE /ˌespləˈneɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ˌespləˈneɪd/ 🔊 nouna level area of open ground in a town for people to walk along, often by the sea or a river （常指城镇中海滨、河畔供人散步的）广场，空地