porch
Americannoun
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porches
plural
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an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
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a veranda.
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the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.
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Obsolete. a portico.
noun
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a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance
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an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda
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Origin of porch
1250–1300; Middle English porche < Old French < Latin porticus porch, portico
Vocabulary lists containing porch
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On Friday the boy's mother -- named by media as Shauntai May Nickerson -- smoked a cigarette on the porch outside her apartment.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The court heard that in April 2025 Nigel Farage's partner found that damage had been caused to their main front door at their house and a bottle of lighter fluid was found in the porch.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
A lot of times I’ll have people over and write on the back porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Lesley Greene and her husband started it by casually playing music on their porch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
As I came in sight of the store, I saw my old grandpa sitting in his rocker on the porch.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Every night, when summer heat and blackouts make sleep impossible at home, Cubans head for rooftops, porches and public spaces where they can catch a breeze.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
However, Davidson did do some renovations, including adding a guesthouse, movie room, pool, hot tub, cold-plunge pool, sauna, and screened porches.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The company is Ridwell, and if you drive the residential streets of the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles, you’re likely to see the company’s signature white metal boxes on porches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Pittsburgh is a city of some 90 hilly neighborhoods, where the front doors of row houses open to the sidewalk, brick houses have porches but no garages, and street parking is often the rule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
People sitting on cabin porches would wonder whether the speck would take the form of man, woman, or child.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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