🇬🇧 Patio meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A patio is a flat outdoor area, usually with stone, bricks, or concrete, right next to a house where people sit, eat, play, or relax outside.

We put a comfy chair on the patio, and now Grandpa refuses to come back inside.

My brother tried to skateboard on the patio and invented a new trick called ‘Falling With Extra Sound Effects.’

We chalked a giant hopscotch on the patio, and now the adults are secretly playing it when they think we’re not looking.

Dad danced on the patio so badly that even the lawn lights tried to turn themselves off.

The first patios were popular in Spanish-speaking countries, where the word ‘patio’ originally meant an inner courtyard.

She opened the back door and stepped into the small patio, the house's patio where a wooden table waited. The children ran onto the patio with plates. A cat stretched on the warm stones of the patio while conversations rose. They ate on the patio, watching the sun sink. Later, everyone sighed and closed the door, full and calm.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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