/pɔːtʃ/, /pɔɹt͡ʃ/, /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
OriginFrom Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.
- 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.”
“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 s”
- A portico; a covered walk.
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
“By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.”
- A surname.
- with-definite-articleThe Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
Formsporches(plural) · Porches(plural)