ivy-covered

Thân thiện

The old stone wall is ivy-covered and green.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Overgrown with ivy: Describes a structure, typically a building or wall, that has ivy plants growing on and covering its surface.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The old, ivy-covered cottage looked like something from a fairy tale.
  • We walked through the gate into the ivy-covered courtyard.

Advanced Usage

• Used to evoke a sense of age, tradition, or romantic neglect, often associated with academic institutions or historic estates.
  • The university's most prestigious scholars taught in the ivy-covered halls.

Variants and Related Words

• Ivy-clad (adj): A less common synonym with the same meaning.
• Ivied (adj): Covered with ivy. (e.g., )

Synonyms

• Overgrown with ivy: The literal descriptive phrase.
• Vine-covered: A more general term for being covered with climbing plants.

Related Idioms

• While not an idiom itself, "ivy-covered" is closely associated with the term "Ivy League", which refers to a group of prestigious, long-established universities in the northeastern US, many of which have classic ivy-covered buildings.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. overgrown with ivy
   • Harvard's ivied buildings

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ivied