porch

noun

/pɔːtʃ/

/pɔːrtʃ/

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a small area at the entrance to a building, such as a house or a church, that is covered by a roof and often has walls
- She stood in the porch and rang the doorbell.
Topics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- entrance
- church
- back
- …
porch + noun
- door
- light
preposition
- in the porch
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(North American English)
(also veranda, verandah (both especially British English))
a platform with an open front and a roof, built onto the side of a house on the ground floor
Extra Examples
- They were sitting out on the porch in the cool evening air.
- After dinner we sat on the front porch and talked for hours.
- The screened porch looks across the backyard into the woods.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- back
- front
- side
- …
porch + noun
- step
- light
- swing
- …
preposition
- on the porch
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French porche, from Latin porticus ‘colonnade’, from porta ‘passage’.

单词	porch
释义	porch noun /pɔːtʃ/ /pɔːrtʃ/ jump to other results enlarge image a small area at the entrance to a building, such as a house or a church, that is covered by a roof and often has walls She stood in the porch and rang the doorbell. Topics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective entrance church back … porch + noun door light preposition in the porch See full entry (North American English) (also veranda, verandah (both especially British English)) a platform with an open front and a roof, built onto the side of a house on the ground floor Extra Examples They were sitting out on the porch in the cool evening air. After dinner we sat on the front porch and talked for hours. The screened porch looks across the backyard into the woods. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective back front side … porch + noun step light swing … preposition on the porch See full entry Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French porche, from Latin porticus ‘colonnade’, from porta ‘passage’.
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