porch
noun
an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
porchlike
-
a word derived from
porch.
Example Sentences
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The church isn’t as big as the one Dad drags him to every Sunday, but a wide set of steps leads to a covered porchlike area set between two square towers with domed roofs.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
Most of these schools visited by the writer were small one-room frame buildings with porchlike attachments on which were built a tiny hall and dressing "rooms."
From A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek
