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Meaning of Porch | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
pɔːtʃ

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. 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.
  3. The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
    with-definite-article
  4. A portico; a covered walk.
  5. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

Equivalents

العربية السقيفة رواق شرفة طارمة
Azərbaycanca eyvan Şəki talvar
Беларуская ганак
Български веранда
বাংলা বারান্দা
Català pòrtic porxo
Cymraeg cyntedd porth
Esperanto alero portiko
فارسی ایوان
Gaeilge póirse
Magyar tornác veranda
Հայերեն պատշգամբ
Italiano portico veranda
日本語 ポーチ 玄関 縁側
Қазақша кіреберіс
한국어 포치 현관
Kurdî ganek portal
Кыргызча босого
Latina porticus
Македонски предворје трем
മലയാളം പൂമുഖം
Nederlands portiek veranda
Română portic
Tagalog portiko

Examples

“He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.”
“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.”
“By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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