lanai.

A covered porch, veranda or open-sided living area adjoining a house, especially in Hawaiian and North American usage.

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Words that belong together

• screened lanai
• covered lanai

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They waited on the covered lanai while the shower passed across the garden.

The screened lanai allowed the evening air in without opening the house itself.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular lanai; plural lanais. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: uncommon.