as in verandah
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a row of columns supporting a roof at the entrance of a building
Entry to the mansion is through a lavish portico.
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Recent Examples of portico
With its wrap-around, colonnaded portico, surely this Gilded Age structure left its latter-day beholders awestruck at first sight.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025
The main alteration was the restoration of the central portico to its original proportions, removing a canopy in the entrance hall that had been added in the 1990s, a move which allows for more light.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
—Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025
Popular viewing locations include the portico of the City-County Building, and the corner of Grant Street and Boulevard of the Allies.
—Ryan Deto, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2025
The main alteration was the restoration of the central portico to its original proportions, removing a canopy in the entrance hall that had been added in the 1990s, a move which allows for more light.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
—Hannah Poukish, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025
Popular viewing locations include the portico of the City-County Building, and the corner of Grant Street and Boulevard of the Allies.
—Ryan Deto, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portico
Noun
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Marcus will operate similar concepts, including hot and cold food options, a coffee counter and a terrace bar.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Wraparound terraces are staggered for privacy and shade, and a dramatic canyon cuts through the center of the building, where a 75-foot-long translucent acrylic pool bridges the gap between the rooftop terraces of the building’s north and south wings—Miami’s first of its kind.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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When Fort Worth campuses were closed during the COVID pandemic, Bennett, who lives near the school, tutored Briscoe students on her front porch.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Aug. 2025
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After a report on a meeting of Bath County supervisors, in 2017, someone dumped manure in front of the local station’s porch, twice.—
Oliver Whang,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In contrast to Pei’s modernist pyramid, officials want the new entrance to blend into the 17th-century colonnade.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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Many people walked with care around the colonnades flanking this historic piazza.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
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“Portico.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portico. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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