patio
noun/ˈpætiəʊ/
/ˈpætiəʊ/
(plural patios)
- a flat hard area outside, and usually behind, a house where people can sit
- on the patio Let's have lunch out on the patio.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPatio is used before these nouns:- door
- furniture
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Spanish, denoting an inner courtyard.
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