porch

[ pawrch, pohrch ]

/ pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ /

an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.

a veranda.

the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.

Obsolete. a portico.

Origin of porch

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

porch·less, adjective porch·like, adjective un·der·porch, noun

He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.

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Davis jumped over a 4-foot porch wall and ran into a house, where he and others crammed themselves into a linen closet.

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Gosta Peterson sits on the porch of his Long Island home and greets passersby.

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On the porch, before I go, Peterson looks at me through the lens of a small digital camera before training it on his front lawn.

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A black-and-white cat named Chopper sleeps upside down on the porch, his open mouth revealing a row of impossibly tiny teeth.

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In the porch he paused a moment, to draw on his woollen gloves, and button his great coat, and for something besides.

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The influence of his deep acquaintance with French is shown in the position of the adverb in "I saw again somebody in the porch."

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Basing his action on this conclusion, he remained on the porch and finished his breakfast.

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He detained Charles on the porch long enough to tell his plan.

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No one was about; and, with a light and hasty step, he proceeded to the hall below, and onward to the porch.

Hildebrand |Anonymous

porch

/ (pɔːtʃ) /

a low structure projecting from the doorway of a house and forming a covered entrance

US and Canadian an exterior roofed gallery, often partly enclosed; veranda

C13: from French porche, from Latin porticus portico