Definitions for porticos

porticos por·ti·co

Spelling: [pawr-ti-koh, pohr-]
IPA: /ˈpɔr tɪˌkoʊ, ˈpoʊr-/

Porticos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in porticos (ciooprst).

Definitions for porticos

noun

  1. a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.

Origin of porticos

1595-1605; Italian Latin porticus porch, portico. See port4

Examples for porticos

We stepped up on the portico of the big house and I rang the bell.

And he slept in the temple, in the portico thereof, as sound as a muleteer.

The scarred wooden pillars of its portico were hidden with bunting.

In the portico is the colossal statue of Constantine the Great.

If you'll go out on the portico, he'll join you in a moment.

In the meantime Henriette had reached the portico and was about to pass out into the street.

Peter made his way downstairs, and out of the front door to the portico.

With regard to the fluted pillars in the portico, my dears—'

The Poecile was a portico; portico in Greek is stoa, hence the name of Stoic.

In a few moments she joined him under the portico of the hotel.

Word Value for porticos
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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