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# porch

«porch» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small covered area or room at the entrance to a house…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a porch, porches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small covered area or room at the entrance to a house, outside the front door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#m1)

2) (US, Canada) A covered area along the front or side of a house where people can sit; a veranda. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: leaving shoes or wet umbrellas in the porch, sitting on the porch on summer evenings, parcels left on the porch. In safety: «porch pirates» steal parcels; porch lights help visitors see at night. Phrases: «front porch», «back porch», «porch light», «on the porch».

### examples

- Leave your muddy boots in the porch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x1)
- We sat on the porch and drank lemonade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x2)
- The parcel was left on the front porch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x3)
- Turn on the porch light for the visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x4)
- Grandpa has a rocking chair on his porch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x5)
- A cat was sleeping on our porch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x6)
- Now one night he heard some one knocking at the porch, asking for admittance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x7)

### note

Plural: porches (-es after ch). «On the porch» (US, an open area), «in the porch» (UK, a small room). Similar: veranda/verandah, deck, stoop.

### In the corpora

- [Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/6/)
- [Making amends can be work as well as money, like painting a porch you damaged.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/20/)
- [Her heart raced, her dog hid under the bed for a whole day, and the porch boards were scorched.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church/4/)
- [Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.85/)
- [And his house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the like work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.235/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «porch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.