noun. A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a building.

noun. An open or enclosed gallery or room attached to the outside of a building; a veranda.

noun. A portico or covered walk.

noun. In architecture, an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway; a covered way or entrance, whether inclosed or uninclosed.

noun. A covered walk, or portico; a stoa.

noun. A veranda.

noun. Figuratively, the beginning or entrance.

noun. 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.

noun. A portico; a covered walk.

noun. 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`. [See Poicile.]

noun. A covered and enclosed 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.

noun. A portico; a covered walk.

noun. a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

"The ancient porch, the remains of very old constructions, is masked by a fore-front that belongs to the last period of the gothic art, and which was built in 1494 by James of Landshut; this new porch (_porch of St. Laurence_), though handsome in its _ensemble_, is wanting in that noble simplicity and purity of taste that distinguishes the other parts of the Cathedral; it is overloaded with ornaments, and its statues have a stiffness that is found nowhere else."

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