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porch

[ pawrch, pohrch ]

noun

  1. an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
  2. a veranda.
  3. the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.
  4. Obsolete. a portico.


porch

/ ɔːʃ /

noun

  1. a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance
  2. an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ǰl adjective
  • ǰl adjective
  • ܲd·ǰ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of porch1

1250–1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico
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Word History and Origins

Origin of porch1

C13: from French porche, from Latin porticus portico
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The dog walked to the porch and died there without receiving any aid, according to the lawsuit.

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The house was simply gone, save the precarious, towering chimney and the massive concrete pillars that had supported the front porch.

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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.

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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.

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He began serving cacao to visitors on his porch, and friends started calling them “cacao ceremonies.”

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