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Etymology
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From Middle Englishporche, from Old French, from Latinporticus(“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, andporticus.
Pronunciation
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(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɔːtʃ/
(General American) IPA(key): /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /poətʃ/
Audio (US):
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Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ
Noun
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porch (plural porches)
The porch of the William G. Harrison House.
(architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings. He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
A portico; a covered walk.
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo:By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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back porch
front porch
outporch
porched
porchful
porchless
porchlight
porchlike
porch monkey
porch piracy
porch pirate
porchscape
porch swing
porchway
snow porch
sunporch
wet porch
Translations
[edit] a covered and enclosed entrance to a building
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Icelandic: (please verify) veröndf
See also
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loggia
porte-cochère
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