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# porch

noun (a porch, porches)

«porch» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small covered area or room at the entrance to a house, outside the front door. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x1)
- We sat on the porch and drank lemonade. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x2)
- The parcel was left on the front porch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x3)
- Turn on the porch light for the visitors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x4)
- Grandpa has a rocking chair on his porch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/#x5)
- A cat was sleeping on our porch. [tree →](https://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://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 Jewish tradition

A porch is the covered entry hall of the Temple or of a palace. Solomon's Temple had a porch at the front, and Ezekiel measures one in his vision.

**Interpretation.** Tradition remembers the Temple porch with its two bronze pillars and sees Ezekiel's measured porch as part of the future Temple.

### Examples

- He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed. (Prophets EZK.40.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/porch/#x1)
- Now the temple, and the inner place, and the porches of the court, (Prophets EZK.41.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/porch/#x2)
- He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to wife, like unto this porch. (Prophets 1KI.7.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/porch/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «porch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«porch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/porch.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «porch» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/porch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«porch» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/porch.html) on Mova free.