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porch
[ pawrch, pohrch ]
noun
- an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
- a veranda.
- the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.
- Obsolete. a portico.
porch
/ pɔːtʃ /
noun
- a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance
- an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda
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Other Words From
- porchless adjective
- porchlike adjective
- under·porch noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of porch1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of porch1
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Example Sentences
He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.
Davis jumped over a 4-foot porch wall and ran into a house, where he and others crammed themselves into a linen closet.
Gosta Peterson sits on the porch of his Long Island home and greets passersby.
On the porch, before I go, Peterson looks at me through the lens of a small digital camera before training it on his front lawn.
She taught little black boys to love themselves, and look beyond their own front porch to the hope of a broader horizon.
Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
Sarah was standing on the porch again wiping her hands on her apron, looking away toward the fields.
The bells were clashing merrily from the village spire as the party passed out of the church porch.
The fight was over and Lawrence rode up to the house, and was met on the porch by a white haired, fine looking old gentleman.
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