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porch

[pawrch, pohrch]

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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.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico

Related forms

porch·less, adjective

porch·like, adjective

un·der·porch, noun

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

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IF you have a large porch on your home, it is important to inspect it annually.

He didn't choose to be standing on the porch that late.

He should indeed be snoozing on a porch in well-earned retirement.

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IF you have a large porch on your home, it is important to inspect it annually.

He didn't choose to be standing on the porch that late.

He should indeed be snoozing on a porch in well-earned retirement.

Imagine a muggy summer night-steak sizzling on the barbeque, cold drink in hand, and hundreds of insects mobbing the porch light.

To my relief, his porch was merely speckled with soot.

Somehow he got distracted and left the concoction on his front porch overnight.

They also poured a wider concrete porch and added a wall.

He gives a flick of the wrist, and the snail sails off the porch into the garden.

The blaze appeared to have started in trash behind an enclosed wooden porch at the rear of the.

Athletics has become the front porch to a university, and our front porch has been crowded of late.

Just sit on the porch at the community store and talk with people.

We made our own pine box and had it waiting on the back porch.

Use our container planting plans to bring fall colors to your porch or patio.

Numbers such as these are bringing the big dogs off the porch.

Veasy was sitting last night on the porch of the cottage when a large insect came sailing up to her in.

The president was a dog who couldn't stay on the porch.

If you can leave the porch you'll have lots of options.

Freshen up your porch or patio with a mix of white-flowered plants and bluish foliage.

Each is different but all feature a rusted tin roof overhead, a sagging porch to sit on, and a squeaky bed to sleep in.

About twenty persons were seated on the porch of the village.

We find such joy sitting on our cement slab of a porch watching neighborhood traffic- add a couple beers and some.

The eerie green of the porch against the oddly purple sky gives a spooky feeling to the whole image.

The porch and façade give no hint of the modernity inside.

It's late, the porch lights are out, but you know every house on the block has half a bowl of candy left over.

Eat-in kitchen with two pantries,new above ground oil tank and a rocking chair front porch.

But they are also extremely helpful when you have to fix your porch or need help with that pile of firewood.

The cabin was really cool because it had a wrap-around porch you could go out on to watch for animals and birds.

To decorate your patio or porch this month, try plants instead of plastic pumpkins or gossamer ghosts.

The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace.

Wilson and her daughters at afternoon tea on a porch.

More important, he's seen two-a young man and woman, on the porch.

They also poured a new concrete porch that's spacious enough for a pair of chairs and small table.

Out on the front porch, tied together with twine and lying on the porch swing, was a bundle of four thick metal rods.

The master suite, an addition, is accessible from the porch.

Greeting me on a generous, sun-dappled porch are two women who could not appear more different.

Rocking in a wooden chair, on a wide front porch lit by the late-afternoon sun, pointed at a picture-perfect.

Relax on the inviting porch or enjoy root beer floats and other treats at the old-fashioned soda fountain.

The front yard provides a pretty scene to view from the porch.

Her earliest memory was the sea surging against the rocks below the porch of her family's holiday villa.

They instantly transform a front porch into a festive focal point.

The light color and the large porch help deflect heat.

Barn doors slide open to turn the main gathering area into a porch.

Meadows and perennial gardens surround, and all rooms open onto a rocking-chair-filled porch.

Choose a globe that fits over the porch light and you can greet trick-or-treaters in an orange glow.

Disfigured patients lie on stretchers in the hallways and on the porch.

Large sculptural boulders decorate the porch and planting bed under the existing birches.

She broke off her chain last night and came on to my back porch and viciously attacked my baby.

Encircle a few pumpkins with slender carvings to add a subtle glow to your front porch.

She has also pulled me off the porch with this as well.

Terra-cotta pots are painted silvery gray to match the porch.

Readymade garlands and wreaths, with a few natural embellishments of your own, turn a porch into a grand entrance.

Behind her, fresh flowers suck up water in tall buckets on the shaded porch that wraps around her big yellow farmhouse.

If it's not windy, score a seat on the flower-hung porch.

Gourmet breakfast is served on the long wraparound porch.

To prevent this, move the plants to a chilly porch or other cool, frost-free location whenever you.

When there are extra guests, the screened in porch can be used as another sleeping area.

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World English Dictionary

porch (pɔːtʃ)

—n
1.	a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance
2.	(US), (Canadian) an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda

[C13: from French porche, from Latin porticus portico]

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Word Origin & History

porch

late 13c., from O.Fr. porche, from L. porticus "covered gallery, arcade," from porta "gate." The L. word was borrowed directly into O.E. as portic.

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