Usually means: Covered entrance to a building.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word porch:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. porch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. porch: Merriam-Webster
  3. porch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. porch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. porch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. porch: Vocabulary.com
  7. Porch, porch, the porch: Wordnik
  8. porch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Porch, porch: Wiktionary
  10. porch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. porch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. porch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Porch, porch, the porch: Dictionary.com
  14. porch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. porch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Porch (Pearl Jam song), Porch (company), Porch (disambiguation), Porch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Porch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. porch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. porch: Rhymezone
  20. porch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. porch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Porch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Porch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. porch, the porch: FreeDictionary.org
  25. porch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. The Porch, porch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Porch (broadcasting), The Porch, porch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Porch (or Vestibule, in Architecture): Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Porch: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. porch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Porch, porch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  A portico; a covered walk.
▸ noun:  The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (with definite article) The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).

Similar:
portico, porchway, anteportico, parvis, back porch, porch swing, porchlight, sunporch, veranda, parlor, more...

Opposite:
backyard, cellar, attic, basement, interior

Types:
veranda, lanai, loggia, portico, stoop, deck, patio, more...

Phrases:
the porch, front porch, back porch, porch swing, screened porch, more...

Adjectives:
front, south, small, screened, wide, little, sun, large, open, covered, long

Colors:
    white,     beige,     sage green,     navy blue,     sky blue, more...


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Similar:
portico, porchway, anteportico, parvis, back porch, porch swing, porchlight, sunporch, veranda, parlor, more...

Opposite:
backyard, cellar, attic, basement, interior

Types:
veranda, lanai, loggia, portico, stoop, deck, patio, more...

Phrases:
the porch, front porch, back porch, porch swing, screened porch, sun porch, church porch, Sleeping porch, painted porch, carriage porch, porch monkey, front porch campaign, front porch campaigning, more...

Adjectives:
front, south, small, screened, wide, little, sun, large, open, covered, long

Colors:
    white,     beige,     sage green,     navy blue,     sky blue, more...



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