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sleeping porch

noun

Definition of sleeping porch

as in sunroom

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Recent Examples of sleeping porch Highlights include a media room and a sleeping porch, along with a spacious fireside living room topped with a statement chandelier. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 May 2025 This home has three bedrooms and a sleeping porch, two and a half bathrooms, a fireplace, a lawn, and deck. — Kristine Hansen, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2025 My parents’ house originally had two sleeping porches, both upstairs, one east and one west. — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024 Residential builders soon caught on, and by the early 1900s, sleeping porches were appearing in homes from Minneapolis to Brooklyn, New York. — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for sleeping porch

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Noun

Then, across the library, a more relaxed south-facing sunroom, with cafe-style seating and the garden beyond.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
Pocket doors open to the living room with a wood-burning fireplace and latticed doors that lead to a sunroom.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of sunroom

Noun

Perhaps the most special suite is the Romeo e Giulietta, an intimate two-story villa perched high on the cliff above the sea with a terrace equipped with a heated infinity pool and solarium.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026
Install this Purple Leaf solarium now and get ready for game days, dinner parties, and other fall festivities.

— Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of solarium

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After Alex’s death, a youth who was placed in the Bailey home a few months before the crash said that Bailey allegedly often drank and slept on the sunporch.

— Ginny Monk, courant.com, 9 Mar. 2022
In the early 1800s, the family created a common roof and sided the two cabins and built a sunporch.

— Taylor M. Riley, The Courier-Journal, 29 Mar. 2018

Definition of sunporch

Noun

There’s also a porte cochere and parking garage for seamless coming and going without any risk of paparazzi or rabid Beliebers.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 7 July 2026
Patients access the complex — created by merging a former law office, funeral home, car dealership and Dunkin’ Donuts — by driving around back where a porte cochere leads into a soaring atrium.

— T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2025

Definition of porte cochere

Noun

Like many of the homes throughout Virginia, Birdwood Mansion was built according to Jeffersonian architectural and design ideals, with symmetrical details like an entrance portico, Doric columns, and impressive brickwork.

— Heather Bien, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2026
But the massive portico did not protect them from the lashing rain.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of portico

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