porch

[US]/pɔːtʃ/
[UK]/pɔːrtʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a covered entrance to a building; a veranda or walkway

Phrases & Collocations

front porch

screened porch

covered porch

back porch

wrap-around porch

Example Sentences

a house with a wide porch in front.

a glassed-in porch that caught the sun.

a glassed-in porch; a glassed-in bookcase.

She would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.

she flip-flopped off the porch in battered trainers.

an unenclosed porch; unenclosed common land.

One morning we came upon an abandoned undernourished puppy on the porch.

The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the porch, and entered the courtyard.

"Narthex: Long, narrow porch, usually colonnaded or arcaded, crossing the entire width of a church at its entrance."

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