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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
/ ɔːʃ /
noun
- a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance
- an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda
Other Word Forms
- ǰl adjective
- ǰl adjective
- ܲd·ǰ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of porch1
Word History and Origins
Origin of porch1
Example Sentences
The dog walked to the porch and died there without receiving any aid, according to the lawsuit.
The house was simply gone, save the precarious, towering chimney and the massive concrete pillars that had supported the front porch.
He lives on Sonoma Drive in his grandparents’ old house, where he and his wife married on the back porch and where they are raising their children.
Some of them are sitting in boxes on a side porch at Garland’s mother’s house, and others are in a climate-controlled warehouse in Harbor City donated by a friend in the tile industry.
He began serving cacao to visitors on his porch, and friends started calling them “cacao ceremonies.”
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