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

/ pɔːtʃ /

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

Other Word Forms

• porchless adjective
• porchlike adjective
• underporch noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of porch¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of porch¹

C13: from French porche, from Latin porticus portico

Example Sentences

The auxiliary’s Facebook page also encouraged residents to hang blue ribbons outside homes, mailboxes, fences and porches—“for our hometown soldier.”

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Almost three terrifying hours later, the police found her, huddled on a neighbor’s porch.

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The story leaps two autumns ahead, when Odd happens along and helps Sook and Buddy as they struggle to haul a tub of chrysanthemums to their porch.

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Your poinsettias will do fine in the house or on a sheltered porch, as long as they don’t experience big temperature swings like sitting next to a heater.

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My mind graces me with flashbacks of the woman, with eyes as orange as the Halloween pumpkins Autumn already had out on the porch.

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Related Words

• balcony 
• deck 
• portico 
• stoop 
• veranda