porch

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːtʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹtʃ/
• (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 and enclosed 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.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

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

• loggia
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