back porch
23
2.3
- noun
- /bæk pɔrtʃ/
:
porche trasero
- I love to sit on the back porch and enjoy my morning coffee.
- sitting on my back porch
- back porch door
- back porch of the house
Oh my God, they're on the back porch at the house in Vermont.
- Oh my God, they're on the back porch at the house in Vermont.
- So he climbed up on a couch on the back porch and laid down on the couch and fell asleep.
- Everyone suggested this and that is now our brand new screened in back porch.
- She remains solid, grounded, decent and generous whether she was moderating a town hall or sitting on her back porch with her girlfriends.
- And I had them sit down on the steps back porch.
- And like three of our guys are like, so there's kind of the back porch is like right here.
- And the first time I got there, we hung for a bit and and sit out on the back porch and it was pretty crisp, pretty clean.
Examples
-
Francesca was feeding the dog on the back porch when the phone rang in the kitchen.
Fiction book (1992) -
The big man steps onto the back porch, removes his hat.
Fiction book (1993) -
I saw his shoes on the back porch.
-
I'll check the back porch.
-
For instance, I was on the back porch a couple of months after the twins were born.
-
Well, I'm gonna paint the back porch this weekend.
-
Sometimes I found that the UPS man had left a package on the back porch.
Fiction book (1992) -
The screen door scraped on the back porch when I opened it.
Fiction book (1991) -
I grabbed some oranges off the back porch and started to squeeze myself some fresh juice.
Fiction book (1990) -
Aunt Mamie D. sat on the back porch, and the rest of the afternoon she embroidered.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
426
1.0
A covered area by the front door where people can sit or leave things
19
2.7
A roofed platform along a house at ground level, often partly enclosed
8
7.9
A covered entrance to a building with columns like a porch
3
3.4
A room mostly made of glass that lets in sunlight for sitting and relaxing
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a porch located at the back of a house' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'back' (at the rear) with 'porch' (a covered area attached to a building). This straightforward adjective–noun composition follows common cross-linguistic spatial-modifier patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Back porch comes from a simple house picture: a porch at the back door where people sit or wait outside. So it means 'a porch located at the back door of a house'.