Definitions for porches

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porches porch

Spelling: [pawrch, pohrch]

IPA: /pɔrtʃ, poʊrtʃ/

Porches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 239 anagrams from letters in porches (cehoprs).

Definitions for porches

noun

1. an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
2. a veranda.
3. the Porch, the portico or stoa in the agora of ancient Athens, where the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Citium and his followers met.
4. Obsolete. a portico.

Origin of porches

1250-1300; Middle English porche Old French Latin porticus porch, portico

Examples for porches

He recognized K., and, mopping dry a part of the porch, shoved a chair on it.

I would have it like the porch—not of Bethesda, but of heaven itself.

A black-and-white cat named Chopper sleeps upside down on the porch, his open mouth revealing a row of impossibly tiny teeth.

Once again his eyes were like Tillie's, as she had waved good-bye from the porch.

Davis jumped over a 4-foot porch wall and ran into a house, where he and others crammed themselves into a linen closet.

He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.

On the porch, before I go, Peterson looks at me through the lens of a small digital camera before training it on his front lawn.

Gosta Peterson sits on the porch of his Long Island home and greets passersby.

Bill was scrubbing the porch, and a farmhand was gathering bottles from the grass into a box.

He limped up the hill to her, and sat down on the top step of the porch.