porch

A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a building.

An open or enclosed gallery or room attached to the outside of a building; a veranda.

A portico or covered walk.

In architecture, an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway; a covered way or entrance, whether inclosed or uninclosed.

A covered walk, or portico; a stoa.

A veranda.

Figuratively, the beginning or entrance.

A covered and inclosed 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. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under carriage, and loggia.

A portico; a covered walk.

a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called “h poiki`lh stoa`. [See Poicile.]