porch

See also: Porch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːtʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poətʃ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

Noun

porch (plural porches)

The porch of the William G. Harrison House.

1. (architecture) 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.

   • 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:

     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.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
   • 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo:

     By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• porch pirate
• snow porch
• sunporch
• wet porch
• porch swing

Translations

a covered and enclosed entrance to a building

• Albanian: verandë (sq) f, treme (sq) f, hajat (sq) m
• Arabic: رِوَاق m (riwāq), رُوَاق m (ruwāq), شُرْفَة (ar) f (šurfa)
• Armenian: ճակատամուտք (hy) (čakatamutkʻ), պատշգամբ (hy) (patšgamb)
• Azerbaijani: eyvan (az), səki (az), talvar (az)
• Basque: apiriku
• Belarusian: га́нак m (hának), вера́нда f (vjeránda)
• Bengali: বারান্দা (bn) (baranda), রোয়াক (bn) (roak)
• Bhojpuri: बरामदा (barāmᵊdā)
• Bulgarian: вера́нда (bg) m (veránda)
• Catalan: porxo (ca) m, pòrtic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門廊／门廊 (zh) (ménláng), 玄關／玄关 (zh) (xuánguān)

• Czech: veranda f
• Dutch: veranda (nl) f, portiek (nl) f
• Erzya: кустембе (kuśťembe)
• Esperanto: porĉo, alero, portiko
• Estonian: veranda (et)
• Finnish: porstua (fi), kuisti (fi)
• French: porche (fr) m, véranda (fr) f, portique (fr) m
• Galician: portal m, alpendre (gl) m
• Georgian: პარმაღი (ṗarmaɣi)
• German: Vorbau (de) m, Vordach (de) n, Veranda (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 f (ubizwa)
• Greek:

  Ancient: παστάς f (pastás)

• Hebrew: מִרְפֶּסֶת (he) f (mirpéset)
• Hindi: द्वारमण्डप m (dvārmaṇḍap), बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā), पोर्च (hi) (porc)
• Hungarian: tornác (hu), veranda (hu)
• Irish: póirse m
• Italian: veranda (it) f
• Japanese: ポーチ (ja) (pōchi), 玄関 (ja) (げんかん, genkan)
• Kabuverdianu: varanda
• Kazakh: кіреберіс (kıreberıs), шығаберіс (şyğaberıs)
• Korean: 현관(玄關) (ko) (hyeon'gwan), 포치 (pochi)
• Kyrgyz: босого (ky) (bosogo), крыльцо (krıltso)
• Latin: porticus f
• Latvian: lievenis (lv) m, veranda f
• Lithuanian: veranda f
• Macedonian: трем m (trem), предворје n (predvorje)
• Malayalam: പൂമുഖം (ml) (pūmukhaṁ)
• Maori: mahau, whakamahau, kōihi, tupehau, pikitara, kopa pākai
• Mongolian: кирлц (kirlc)
• Norman: portico m
• Old English: forehūs
• Pennsylvania German: Portsch
• Persian: ایوان (fa) (eyvân)
• Polish: ganek (pl) m, przedsionek (pl) m
• Portuguese: alpendre (pt) m, pórtico (pt) m, varanda (pt) f
• Romanian: verandă (ro) f, portic (ro) n
• Russian: крыльцо́ (ru) n (krylʹcó), вера́нда (ru) f (veránda)
• Scottish Gaelic: fosglan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трем m, тријем m

  Roman: trem (sh) m, trijem (sh) m

• Slovak: veranda f
• Slovene: preddverje (sl) n
• Spanish: pórtico (es) m, porche (es) m
• Swedish: veranda (sv) c (with or without roof), förstukvist (sv) (usually with roof)
• Tagalog: portiko
• Tajik: айвончаи дари даромад (ayvonča-yi dar-i daromad), айвон (tg) (ayvon)
• Tatar: болдыр (tt) (boldır)
• Thai: เฉลียง (th) (chlǐiang), มุข (th) (múk), ระเบียง (th) (rá-biiang)
• Turkish: sundurma (tr), veranda (tr)
• Ukrainian: ґа́нок (uk) m (gánok), вера́нда f (veránda)
• Uzbek: ayvon (uz)
• Welsh: porth (cy) m, cyntedd m
• Yiddish: גאַניק m (ganik)

a portico; a covered walk

• Esperanto: portiko
• Finnish: pylväshalli
• Galician: soportal m
• Greek:

  Ancient: παστάς f (pastás)

• Italian: portico (it) m
• Latin: porticus m
• Norman: portico m
• Polish: portyk (pl) m
• Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik), кры́тая галере́я f (krýtaja galeréja)

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

See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère