patio
nounAn outdoor space for dining or recreation that adjoins a residence and is often paved.
A roofless inner courtyard, typically found in Spanish and Spanish-style dwellings.
In Spain and Spanish-American countries, a court or inclosure connected with a house, and open to the sky.
A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky.
