porch has definitions from the field of housing
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[ noun ] (housing) a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

One week before the convention , Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson , gazing at the opposite shore .

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

I took the pail and shovel and went_out on the porch .

(Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)

Bobby_Joe and the boys would come_by , say `` How 's Granny '' ? and sit on the porch a while .

There were not many chairs , so that some preferred to sit on the edge of the porch , resting their feet on the ground , and_others liked to sit where they could lean_back against the wall .

Howard , who had been sitting against the wall , said he needed more fresh air , and took the spot on the edge of the porch where Bobby_Joe had been sitting .

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8442
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