Definition of "veranda"

veranda

/vəˈɹæn.də/

noun
plural verandas
1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.
  Quotations
  No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 46
  Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
  1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎