Porch
21porch — UK [pɔː(r)tʃ] / US [pɔrtʃ] noun [countable] Word forms porch : singular porch plural porches 1) British a small area covered by a roof at the entrance to a house or other building 2) American a veranda …
22porch — Lānai. ♦ Porch railing, pale lānai. ♦ Porch of pillars, hale kia …
23porch — [13] Porch and portico [17] are ultimately the same word. Both go back to Italian portico, a descendant of Latin porticus ‘covered gallery or entry’, but whereas portico was borrowed directly, porch came via Old French porche. Porticus was… …
24porch — See porch, piazza, veranda …
25porch — A forecourt with pillars in Solomon s house (1 Kgs. 7:6); and in Herod s Temple at Jerusalem a colonnaded portico or passageway was known as Solomon s porch (Acts 3:11) …
26porch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. verandah, portico, piazza; entrance, portal; stoa. See opening, receptacle. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. veranda, piazza, portico, breezeway, entrance, doorstep, stoop, gallery, entrance platform, carriage …
27porch — noun (C) 1 an entrance covered by a roof outside the front door of a house or church 2 AmE an open area with a floor and a roof, often made of wood, fixed to the side of a house on the ground floor; veranda: sitting out on the porch …
28porch — noun the chair would be ideal for a porch or patio Syn: vestibule, foyer, entrance (hall), entry, portico, lobby; veranda, terrace; stoop; Architecture lanai, tambour, narthex …
29porch — /pɔtʃ / (say pawch) noun 1. an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway. 2. US → verandah (def. 1). 3. → portico. {Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus porch, portico} …
30porch — n. 1 a covered shelter for the entrance of a building. 2 US a veranda. 3 (the Porch) = the Stoa (see STOA 2). Derivatives: porched adj. porchless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF porche f. L porticus (transl. Gk stoa) f. porta passage …
