porch

See also: Porch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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

Noun

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.

   He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.

   • 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.

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.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

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

Translations

a covered and enclosed entrance to a building

Albanian: verandë (sq) f, treme (sq) f, hajat (sq) m Arabic: رِوَاق m (riwāq), رُوَاق m (ruwāq), شُرْفَة (ar) f (šurfa) Armenian: ճակատամուտք (hy) (čakatamutkʻ), պատշգամբ (hy) (patšgamb) Azerbaijani: eyvan (az), səki (az), talvar (az) Basque: apiriku Belarusian: га́нак m (hának), вера́нда f (vjeránda) Bengali: বারান্দা (bn) (baranda), রোয়াক (bn) (roak) Bhojpuri: बरामदा (barāmᵊdā) Bulgarian: вера́нда (bg) m (veránda) Catalan: porxo (ca) m, pòrtic (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 門廊 / 门廊 (zh) (ménláng), 玄關 / 玄关 (zh) (xuánguān) Czech: veranda f Dutch: veranda (nl) f, portiek (nl) f Erzya: кустембе (kustembe) Esperanto: porĉo, alero, portiko Estonian: veranda (et) Finnish: porstua (fi), kuisti (fi) French: porche (fr) m, véranda (fr) f, portique (fr) m Galician: portal m, alpendre (gl) m Georgian: პარმაღი (ṗarmaɣi) German: Vorbau (de) m, Vordach (de) n, Veranda (de) f, Windfang (de) m, Vorraum (de) m Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 f (ubizwa) Greek: Ancient: παστάς f (pastás) Hebrew: מִרְפֶּסֶת (he) f (mirpéset) Hindi: द्वारमण्डप m (dvārmaṇḍap), बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā), पोर्च (hi) (porc) Hungarian: tornác (hu), veranda (hu) Irish: póirse m Italian: veranda (it) f Japanese: ポーチ (ja) (pōchi), 玄関 (ja) (げんかん, genkan) Kabuverdianu: varanda Kazakh: кіреберіс (kıreberıs), шығаберіс (şyğaberıs) Korean: 현관(玄關) (ko) (hyeon'gwan), 포치 (pochi) Kyrgyz: босого (ky) (bosogo), крыльцо (krıltso) Latin: porticus f Latvian: lievenis (lv) m, veranda f Lithuanian: veranda f Macedonian: трем m (trem), предворје n (predvorje) Malayalam: പൂമുഖം (ml) (pūmukhaṁ) Maori: mahau, whakamahau, kōihi, tupehau, pikitara, kopa pākai Mongolian: кирлц (kirlc) Norman: portico m Northern Altai: паскыч (paskïč), паскыш (paskïš) Old English: forehūs Pennsylvania German: Portsch Persian: ایوان (fa) (eyvân) Polish: ganek (pl) m, przedsionek (pl) m Portuguese: alpendre (pt) m, pórtico (pt) m, varanda (pt) f Romanian: verandă (ro) f, portic (ro) n Russian: крыльцо́ (ru) n (krylʹcó), вера́нда (ru) f (veránda) Scottish Gaelic: fosglan m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трем m, тријем m Roman: trem (sh) m, trijem (sh) m Slovak: veranda f Slovene: preddverje (sl) n Southern Altai: кирнесте (kirneste) Spanish: pórtico (es) m, porche (es) m Swedish: veranda (sv) c (with or without roof), förstukvist (sv) (usually with roof) Tagalog: portiko Tajik: айвончаи дари даромад (ayvonča-yi dar-i daromad), айвон (tg) (ayvon) Tatar: болдыр (tt) (boldır) Thai: เฉลียง (th) (chlǐiang), มุข (th) (múk), ระเบียง (th) (rá-biiang) Turkish: sundurma (tr), veranda (tr) Ukrainian: ґа́нок (uk) m (gánok), вера́нда f (veránda) Uzbek: ayvon (uz) Welsh: porth (cy) m, cyntedd m Yiddish: גאַניק m (ganik)

a portico; a covered walk

Esperanto: portiko Finnish: pylväshalli Galician: soportal m Greek: Ancient: παστάς f (pastás) Italian: portico (it) m Latin: porticus m Norman: portico m Polish: portyk (pl) m Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik), кры́тая галере́я f (krýtaja galeréja) Spanish: pórtico (es) m, soportal (es) m

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See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère