porch

From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portico.

• (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/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

porch (plural porches)

1. (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 222716698:

     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.

2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. 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.

• see Thesaurus:porch

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• porch pirate
• snow porch
• sunporch
• wet porch
• porch swing

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f

• loggia
• porte-cochère