Home › Words › P › porchporch/pɔːtʃ/porch means A surname.porch is pronounced /pɔːtʃ/.EtymologyFrom Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.nameA surname.The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).nounA 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.e.g.“He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.”A portico; a covered walk.The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.e.g.“By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.” — 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).