Porch
[pɔːtʃ] or [pɔrtʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A portico; a covered walk.
Checker: Stella
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Portico, entrance way, vestibule.[2]. [With The prefixed.] The Stoic philosophy, philosophy of Zeno.
Typist: Preston
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Portico, vestibule,[See ENTRANCE]
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Definition
n. a building forming an enclosure or protection for a doorway: a portico at the entrance of churches and other buildings: the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno the Stoic taught: (fig.) the Stoic philosophy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a porch, denotes that you will engage a new undertakings, and the future will be full of uncertainties. If a young woman dreams that she is with her lover on a porch, implies her doubts of some one's intentions. To dream that you build a porch, you will assume new duties.
Typist: Waldo
Examples
- Old Steiler was standing at the porch of his hotel. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We went in, Wemmick leaving his fishing-rod in the porch, and looked all round. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was in a window of what seemed to be an old-fashioned house with three peaks in the roof in front and a circular sweep leading to the porch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Bardell, leaning on Jackson's arm, and leading Tommy by the hand, had already entered the porch. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The main entrance to the church was on the side next to the burial-ground, and the door was screened by a porch walled in on either side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But we cannot sit in the porch now, Robert. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Under the Georgian porch she paused again, scanning the street for a hansom. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He glanced up interrogatively at the porch of the Benedick. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I'll go onto the porch and meet them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- An old man entered the porch just as he reached it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then came the hours of suspense, during which she vibrated from parlor to porch, while public opinion varied like the weathercock. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney-stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Burnside seeing us, came up on the porch, his big spurs and saber rattling as he walked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When I rallied, which I soon did, he walked gently with me up the path to the porch. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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