Definition of: porch

(pôrch, pōrch) noun
1. A covered structure forming an entrance to a building, outside and with a separate roof, or as a recess in the interior as a kind of vestibule; a veranda.
2. An ancient covered walk or portico. Compare LOGGIA.
—the Porch The Stoic school of philosophy in ancient Athens, named from the Stoa Poecile, or Painted Porch. See STOIC. [<OF porche <L porticus a colonnade <porta a gate. Doublet of PORTICO.]