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PORCH
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I. (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:
Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before the one window, looking out on the tiny front porch, was the kitchen table that served as desk, library, and type-writing stand.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Never again did Champion Harrison throw his leg over the ropes of a twenty-four-foot ring; but the story of the great battle between the smith and the West Countryman is still familiar to old ring-goers, and nothing pleased him better than to re-fight it all, round by round, as he sat in the sunshine under his rose-girt porch.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A sudden scud of rain, driving full in her face, made it impossible for her to observe anything further, and fixed all her thoughts on the welfare of her new straw bonnet; and she was actually under the abbey walls, was springing, with Henry's assistance, from the carriage, was beneath the shelter of the old porch, and had even passed on to the hall, where her friend and the general were waiting to welcome her, without feeling one awful foreboding of future misery to herself, or one moment's suspicion of any past scenes of horror being acted within the solemn edifice.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In the morning, when the master came out on to the porch, fifty white Leghorn hens, laid out in a row by the groom, greeted his eyes.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The captain was in the porch, keeping himself carefully out of the way of a treacherous shot, should any be intended.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
"You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The cottage had been standing empty this eight months, and it was a pity, for it was a pretty two-storied place, with an old-fashioned porch and honeysuckle about it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Next he attempted the tiny front porch, until a howling southeaster drenched the wheel a night-long.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
