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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Porch \Porch\, n. [F. porche, L. porticus, fr porta a gate,
entrance, or passage. See {Port} a gate, and cf {Portico}.]
1. (Arch.) 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. [Obs.]
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`. [See {Poicile}.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
porch
n : a structure attached to the exterior of a building often
forming a covered entrance
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