as in verandah
formal
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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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.
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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
Published on April 22, 2025 By Wendy Bowman Photo : Brian Kitts
A blue front door is tucked under a portico entryway.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2025
Villa Aalto, with its modest rooms, charming front portico, traditional hip roofline, and wooden beams, speaks to the easy sincerity of his early designs: vernacular elements at odds with the Modernist dogmas of the day.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
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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
Published on April 22, 2025 By Wendy Bowman Photo : Brian Kitts
A blue front door is tucked under a portico entryway.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2025
Villa Aalto, with its modest rooms, charming front portico, traditional hip roofline, and wooden beams, speaks to the easy sincerity of his early designs: vernacular elements at odds with the Modernist dogmas of the day.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portico
Noun
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Amenities: Free breakfast, dining room, rooftop terrace, garden terrace, street parking Editor’s tip: Before heading out each night, don’t miss out on sunset drinks on the furnished rooftop terrace overlooking Chora.—
Monica Mendal,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
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Two landscaped rooftop terraces have a sunroom lounge in the middle, while the basement holds a catering kitchen and a ton of storage space.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Firefighters found the man’s body on the home’s front porch, Metro Fire Capt. Mark Nunez, a department spokesman, said in a release following the blaze.—
Darrell Smith
July 14,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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There’s a few reasons why shoes might be forgotten on the porch.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
14 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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According to a report by French daily Le Monde, translated in the New York Times, Louvre director Laurence des Cars has called for the new entrance to merge with the surrounding architecture, that being the seventeenth-century colonnade of the museum’s eastern façade, near the Seine River.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 July 2025
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“Portico.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portico. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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