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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pɔːtʃ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹt͡ʃ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹtʃ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poətʃ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

名詞

porch (複数形 porches)

1. (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, […] . We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.

2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
   • 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo:

     By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

同意語

• see Thesaurus:porch

派生語

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• porch pirate
• snow porch
• sunporch
• wet porch
• porch swing

参考

• loggia
• porte-cochère