porch
See also: Porch
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.
Pronunciation edit
- (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) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ
Noun edit
porch (plural porches)
- (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.
- 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 edit
- see Thesaurus:porch
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
a covered and enclosed entrance to a building
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a portico; a covered walk