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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Peter J. Davison’s set featured the typical house with a porch, barn and cornfield, even adding a little train that made a single pass across the front of the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was his first week in the job and he spotted a couple of letters still lying on the floor of the porch, where he had delivered to them days before.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The team hit a speed bump with the Blair House’s front porch spindles, which had been removed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The biggest hits sand down the rough-hewn edges of Mama’s metaphorical front porch to up their resale value, perhaps never funnier than Luke Bryan’s bullet-point summer vacation on “Fish, Hunt, Golf, Drink.”
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
“She’s going to burn the porch off the house one of these times,” Dad often remarked.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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-in porches.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
With its neat rows of detached family homes, complete with grass lawns and porches, Miraflores could be mistaken for a typical American suburb.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
Big Brother sits alongside us on train, cars, buses, even porches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
We crawl below the porches at numbers fourteen and eighteen Crispin Drive.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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