gazebo

Possibly from gaze + Latin conjugation ending -ebo (as in videbo); or possibly from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba) (whence also casbah), refashioned after gaze.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈziːbəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈziːboʊ/

  Rhymes: -iːbəʊ

gazebo (plural gazebos or gazeboes)

1. A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.
   • 1734, Thomas Sheridan (Sr.), Letter from Dr. Sheridan to Dr. Swift; published in Deane Swift, editor, Letters Written by the late Jonathan Swift, D. D.‎, volume v, London: C. Bathurst et al., 1768, page 367:

     Ann dye Ned inn a gaze ay beau a pun a past Eye maid off any Sun ("and dined in a gazebo upon a pasty made of venison")[1]

   • 1749, William Halfpenny, New and Compleat System of Architecture‎, London: John Brindley, page 7:

     over which is a gazebo room 10 feet square

   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 89:

     She led them around the back of the yard, where a gray, tired-looking gazebo perched at the edge of the oak trees.

Borrowed from English gazebo.

• IPA^(key): /ɡadˈd͡zɛ.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɛbo
• Hyphenation: ga‧zè‧bo

gazebo m (invariable)

1. gazebo

• gazebo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡaˈθebo/ [ɡaˈθe.β̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ɡaˈsebo/ [ɡaˈse.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ebo
• Syllabification: ga‧ze‧bo

gazebo m (plural gazebos)

1. gazebo