Word Meanings - PORCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A covered and inclosed 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. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk.

Additional info about word: PORCH

A covered and inclosed 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. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple. Dryden. 2. A portico; a covered walk. Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us. Shak. The Porch, a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORCH)

• Entrance
• Introduction
• opening
• entry
• inlet
• porch
• admission
• penetration
• avenue
• portal
• ingress
• adit

Related words: (words related to PORCH)

• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• PORCH
  A covered and inclosed 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. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• ADMISSION
  Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted;
• OPENLY
  1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show
• OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
  See OPEN
• PORTAL
  The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. 4. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. Portal bracing , a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal,
• ENTRYNG
  Am entrance. So great an entryng and so large. Chaucer.
• OPENER
  One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.
• INGRESS
  The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc. (more info) 1. The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs. 2. Power or liberty of entrance or access; means
• OPENWORK
  A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. (more info) 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• OPEN DOOR
  Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind. Lowell. In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon
• OPEN-HEARTED
  Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton.
• INTRODUCTION
  1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
• OPENBILL
  A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. , under Beak.
• OPEN VERDICT
  A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.
• OPEN-AIR
  Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
• INLET
  1. A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance. Doors and windows,inlets of men and of light. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• FINLET
  A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• ARGENTRY
  Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
• TWOPENNY
  Of the value of twopence.
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• OUTSENTRY
  A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.
• STUDENTRY
  A body of students.
• COPENHAGEN
  A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.