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
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for portico
Noun
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Waterfront dining is on two outside terraces or inside, all with views across the Hudson of the Garden State.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Our apartment, though charming, inconveniently occupied the top two and a half floors of a converted Victorian terrace house, and somehow contained four flights of stairs.—
Anna Russell,
New Yorker,
26 July 2025
Noun
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The porch where the parents talked to their neighbors: gone.—
James Burling,
Oc Register,
28 July 2025
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Indeed, the dogs didn't even reach the end of the porch before managing to wind up tangled and in need of help.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 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 7 Aug. 2025.
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