What's the difference between balcony and veranda?

Balcony


Definition:

  • (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
  • (n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
  • (4) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
  • (5) On the other hand, a quick call to Karen and Babis will secure a lift up from the northern port of Loutraki, and most of your time in your room will be spent on the balcony admiring the views over to Skiathos, particularly as the sun sets.
  • (6) Dozens of pro-marijuana activists followed the debate from balconies overlooking the house floor, while others outside held signs and danced to reggae music.
  • (7) After publishing their work, the two were having a beer on the balcony of a 17th-century cafe overlooking a Brussels park.
  • (8) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
  • (9) Occasional banners on balconies calling for Eta prisoners to be moved to jails nearer to home show where some sympathies lie.
  • (10) • 1050 East Palm Canyon Drive (+1 760 323 1858, thehorizonhotel.com ); double rooms from $109 The Movie Colony Movie Colony, Palm Springs Concierge John-Michael swears that Jim Morrison made the leap from balcony to pool here in 1969, and that Frank Sinatra was a resident while his nearby home was being renovated – and even though the myth of celebrity tends to get overblown, if not utterly fabricated, in southern California, we found no reason not to take him at his word.
  • (11) Slowly and painstakingly, the Cadenas managed to erect basic walls that separate them from neighbours and to fence off a balcony that drops 70m down.
  • (12) The new set has raised viewing platforms on either side, a balcony and a giant video wall.
  • (13) The bottom floor of the three-storey warehouse is where the high-end Sorvete Brasil ice-cream brand is made, and individual cones can be bought at the balcony, with flavours like fig and nut or lychee, for £1.25.
  • (14) Richard Lavington, one of the architects of these developments, says that the aims were "to put a balcony on every unit, and to create a positive interface between private and public", by which he means placing family homes close to shared open spaces and streets in such a way that they might readily use them.
  • (15) Apprehensive about the general's likely utterances, Drapeau had the public address disconnected as De Gaulle waved to the crowds from the city hall balcony.
  • (16) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
  • (17) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (18) Lhakpa and another Sherpa, Dorje, had previously lowered Norris down a line of rope attached to the mountain from a section at 8,500m known as "the balcony".
  • (19) To the rear is the stylishly poised Miramar restaurant and on one side the jauntier hotel Belle-Vue, with its tiny, busy balcony restaurant poking out on the first floor.
  • (20) The bar is dark and friendly, and has a balcony for people watching and good local DJs playing at weekends.

Veranda


Definition:

  • (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) Rates Six- to eight-hour stopover, double with veranda from £55, and £8.50 for each additional hour.
  • (3) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
  • (4) • From €130 a night, minimum stay two nights, nollur.is Brimnes Cabins, north Iceland Facebook Twitter Pinterest At the Brimnes Hotel estate, every oh-so-Nordic bungalow (sleeping four or seven) has a private veranda and outdoor hot tub facing lake Olafsfjardarvatn.
  • (5) From the veranda of his farmhouse on the outskirts of this isolated riverside settlement, Gilvan Onofre can hear the helicopters coming, their rotors slicing through the humid Amazon air.
  • (6) Amazingly I have found a veranda-installation company still giving away free patio heaters.
  • (7) It's owned by artists and the interiors are bohemian and homely rather than slick, with lots of ceramics, rugs and artworks, and a gorgeous shady veranda which runs the length of the house with views across the valley.
  • (8) And several other people were actually still living in their homes, even though they were perched right on the edge of the sand dunes, and they had to very hurriedly evacuate last night and remove all their things, and they’re now coming back this morning to a scene of complete devastation, really, of bits of timber and bits of veranda and bits of front window left on the top of the sand dune, and the rest of the house nowhere to be seen.
  • (9) That evening we sit out on the veranda for quite a long time, feeling relieved and listening to the blackbird singing on our chimney stack.
  • (10) Standing on Espirito Santo's shady veranda, Oscar Bollir, the farm manager, insists they do nothing wrong.
  • (11) Set among nearly 100 acres of forest, these five rooms, 10 miles from Paraty proper, range from luxurious lofts to simpler rooms with fireplaces and verandas looking out over the trees.
  • (12) Then we draw up to our ranch house, a whitewashed bungalow with a red tin roof and a wraparound veranda.
  • (13) The refugees, many with possessions piled on their heads, entered Uganda though the frontier district of Bundibugyo and had to sleep in school grounds under the stars or on shop verandas.
  • (14) Villa Veranda is a private island of calm in a country struggling with pollution and rampant urban crime.
  • (15) It's the end of the dry season in El Salvador , but behind the thick concrete wall that surrounds Villa Veranda – a gated community outside the capital – the grass is green and the water flows fast.
  • (16) Then there’s the hustle and bustle of human activity: women smoking fish or peddling food and bric-a-brac; half-naked children rowing their own boats or playing on the verandas of the wooden shacks; congregants in white garments, singing and dancing in impromptu churches on boats.
  • (17) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
  • (18) There are eight suites, some with a four-poster beds or a private veranda overlooking the garden-and-city view.
  • (19) Standing on his Cliffside veranda, I understand the draw.
  • (20) Oh, yes, the name lives up to its promise: from the wide front veranda, there is indeed a view of the pale-blue sea, glinting through palm trees.