porch

B2 Topic:House & Home

US /pɔɹt͡ʃ/ UK /pɔːtʃ/ See IPA manual

Freq #7133

Meanings

1

noun
A covered area at the entrance of a house, often with a roof and sometimes open at the sides.

He sat on the porch waiting for his friend to arrive.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

portico

Word family

Forms porches

Derived forms outporchporchedporchfulporchlessporchlightporchlikeporchscapeporchwaysunporch

Related forms cloisters colonnade entrance loggiastoaveranda

Appears in

Phrases (1)

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front porch
a covered entrance area at the front of a house

Adjective + noun

Proverbs (1)

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If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch

Etymology

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

*per- (fare) Proto-Indo-European porche Middle English porticus Latin

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Topics

House & Home

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# porch

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
**IPA (UK):** /pɔːtʃ/
**Frequency rank:** 7133

## Meanings
1. A covered area at the entrance of a house, often with a roof and sometimes open at the sides.

## Examples
- He sat on the porch waiting for his friend to arrive.

## Synonyms
- portico

## Derived Forms
- outporch
- porched
- porchful
- porchless
- porchlight
- porchlike
- porchscape
- porchway
- sunporch

## Related Forms
- cloisters
- colonnade
- entrance
- loggia
- stoa
- veranda

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *per- (fare)
- Root: porche
- Root: porticus

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

## AI Etymology
Porch comes from Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus. The historical chain includes *per- (fare) (Proto-Indo-European), porche (Middle English), porticus (Latin). In present-day English it covers a covered area at the entrance of a house, often with a roof and sometimes open at the sides. The wider family includes derived forms such as outporch, porched, porchful, porchless, porchlight and related forms such as cloisters, colonnade, entrance, loggia.

## Topics
- House & Home

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