different between doorstep vs porch

English

Etymology

From door +? step.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

doorstep (plural doorsteps)

1. An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.

2. (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.

3. (Britain, informal) A big slice, especially of bread.
   • 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 ?ISBN

     I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.

Translations

Verb

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

1. (intransitive) To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
2. (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

See also

• ambush journalism

Anagrams

• droopest, optrodes, pet doors, torpedos

Danish

Noun

doorstep

1. (journalism) A short and informal press briefing

English

Etymology

From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Noun

porch (plural porches)

1. (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
2. A portico; a covered walk.
3. The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
   • 2012, Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson, Chariots for Apollo

     By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• back porch
• front porch
• porch monkey
• snow porch
• wet porch

Translations

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} verönd f

See also

• loggia
• porte-cochère