porch

UK/pɔːtʃ//pɔɹt͡ʃ/

porch noun: 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.

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Noun

porch (plural porches)

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.
- 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.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
A portico; a covered walk.
The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo

Proper noun capitalized: Porch

Porch (plural Porches)

A surname.
(with-definite-article) The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).

Synonyms:

Portico

porch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

porch in Hindi

a covered and enclosed entrance to a building: द्वारमण्डप dvārmaṇḍap, बरामदा barāmdā
a portico; a covered walk: द्वारमण्डप dvārmaṇḍap

porch in Tamil

திண்ணை, கட்டட முகப்பு, முக மண்டபம், மூடு முன்றில்

porch in Marathi

पोर्च

porch in Urdu

porch, entrance, threshold: ڈیوڑھی ḍeoṛhī
porch: برنڈا baranḍā, برآمدہ barāmdah, ایوان aivān
porch; entrance: دروازہ darvāza

More languagesFewer languages

porch in Bengali: বারান্দা baranda, রোয়াক roak
porch in Telugu: మండపము maṇḍapamu, పందిరి pandiri
porch in Malayalam: പൂമുഖം pūmukhaṁ
porch in Kannada: ಮುಖಮಂಟಪ, ದ್ವಾರಮಂಟಪ, ಕೈಸಾಲೆ, ಕಯ್ಸಾಲೆ
porch in Punjabi: بوہا būhā, دروازہ darvāzah
porch in Gujarati: વરંડો varaṇḍo
porch in Odia: ପୋର୍ଚ
porch in Nepali: डेउडि ḍeuḍi
porch in Tagalog: portiko
porch in Arabic: رِوَاق riwāq, رُوَاق ruwāq, شُرْفَة šurfa
porch in Persian: ایوان eyvân
porch in Thai: เฉลียง chlǐiang, มุข múk, ระเบียง rá-biiang

Examples of porch in a sentence

The paper boy delivers her newspaper to her front porch every weekday.
Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco.
The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.

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Synonyms of porch

Portico

Forms of porch

Noun
plural	porches
Proper noun
plural	Porches

Plural of porch: porches

Origin of porch

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

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Questions about porch

What does porch mean?: Porch means 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.
What is porch in Hindi?: Porch in Hindi is द्वारमण्डप (dvārmaṇḍap), बरामदा (barāmdā). See Porch meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is porch?: Porch can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce porch?: Porch is pronounced /pɔːtʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of porch?: The plural of porch is porches.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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