PORCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porch mean? 

• PORCH (noun)
  The noun PORCH has 1 sense:

1. a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

  Familiarity information: PORCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("porch" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porch"):

back porch (a porch for the back door)

deck (a porch that resembles the deck on a ship)

front porch (a porch for the front door)

portico (a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area)

stoep; stoop (small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house)

gallery; veranda; verandah (a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed))

Holonyms ("porch" is a part of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

 Context examples 

And on the porch, before the delighted family, Judge Scott, face to face with White Fang, said slowly and solemnly, sixteen times, "White Fang, you are smarter than I thought."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Old Steiler was standing at the porch of his hotel.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See, and don't expose yourself; keep within, and fire through the porch.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I'll go onto the porch and meet them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I stood awhile, looking through the porch at the stars, with a heart full of love and gratitude, and then walked slowly forth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I rallied, which I soon did, he walked gently with me up the path to the porch.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The peasant replied: “He says that the Devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Underneath, in the porch of the Abbey, the monks had gathered to give him a last God-speed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes walked slowly and thoughtfully among the flower-plots and along the path before we entered the porch.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)