About The Word Porch
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Porch
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What's The Definition Of Porch?
[n] a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
Synonyms | Synonyms for Porch: Related Terms | Find terms related to Porch: ambry | apse | archway | back door | baptistery | barway | blindstory | bulkhead | carriage entrance | cellar door | cellarway | chancel | choir | cloisters | confessional | confessionary | crypt | diaconicon | diaconicum | door | doorjamb | doorpost | doorway | Easter sepulcher | French door | front door | gallery | gate | gatepost | gateway | hatch | hatchway | lanai | lintel | nave | patio | piazza | portal | porte cochere | postern | presbytery | propylaeum | pylon | rood loft | rood stair | rood tower | sacrarium | sacristy | scuttle | side door | sleeping porch | solarium | stile | stoop | storm door | sun porch | threshold | tollgate | transept | trap | trap door | triforium | turnpike | turnstile | veranda | vestry See Also | back porch | construction | deck | front porch | gallery | house | portico | stoep | stoop | structure | veranda | verandah Porch In Webster's Dictionary \Porch\, n. [F. porche, L. porticus, fr. porta a gate,
entrance, or passage. See {Port} a gate, and cf. {Portico}.]
1. (Arch.) A covered and inclosed 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. Sometimes the porch is large enough
to serve as a covered walk. See also {Carriage porch},
under {Carriage}, and {Loggia}.
The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's
temple. --Dryden.
2. A portico; a covered walk. [Obs.]
Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find
us. --Shak.
{The Porch}, a public portico, or great hall, in Athens,
where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence,
sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics.
It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`. [See {Poicile}.]
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