Etymology

Noun

1. A gallery, platform, or balcony, usually roofed and often partly enclosed, extending along the outside of a building.
   • 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.

Dictionary notes

• The Macquarie Dictionary prefers the spelling veranda, listing the spelling verandah as Also.
• The Shorter Oxford Dictionary lists the spellings in the order veranda, verandah.
• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary lists the spellings in the order veranda, verandah.