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The two-bedroom cottage comes with a front porch.
He is hoping that folks on his mail route leave their porch lights on tonight.
We added a front porch with a wooden deck with exposed wooden support columns.
He now just sits on the porch of his farm.

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Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas
arcade
archway
breezeway
concourse
desk
entryway
gangway
gateway
hall
hallway
lobby
marquee
on the doorstep
passage
portico
reception
side entrance
side return
terrace
vestibule

porch | American Dictionary

porch
noun[ C ]
us/pɔrtʃ/
a covered area next to the entrance of a house, sometimes open to the air and sometimes surrounded by a screen (= wire net):
The back porch looks out on our garden.

Examples of porch

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In this image, a parapet separates an outdoor porch or balcony from a background landscape of sky, trees, hills, and water.
The pebbles cemented in guano, are in a swale about 10 m east of the 1911 hut porch.
The west wall of the living room, under the balcony, is fully glazed with top hung sliding doors leading to a generous porch with planters.
One important sense of the word porch, for the paper deliverer, is something like 'newspapers go on this thing'.
Again these structures showed the same organization of space as the round barrows, with their porches orientated towards the south.
The porch establishes the datum height of the low level space which runs the length of the house.
Not, perhaps, actually in a field (though it could be); more likely in somebody's home, or on their front porch.
Shed porches attached to pole-and-thatch houses marked higher status.
Penthouses were installed, some in the form of 'storm porches'.
For trees, unlike the inanimate gates and porches, invoke particularly deeply held (and felt) meanings.
The spatial design of the entrance porch facilitated a synergy of socio-climatic qualities, offering a holistic approach to sustaining community and environment.
Directly right, there is a porch area which also receives the service stair to the kitchen.
He then came out of the room and sat down for a moment on a metal chair on the porch.
Each unit has a small front porch, but they are rarely occupied.
A bird, free to fly where it may, links the porch and the table to the landscape beyond.
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Collocations withporch

porch

These are words often used in combination with porch.

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back porch
She told me that she sat on her backporch the day before with this butterfly as it died.
covered porch
A coveredporch is built on the rear.
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