PORTICO (porticoes)

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Irregular inflected form: porticoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does portico mean? 

• PORTICO (noun)
  The noun PORTICO has 1 sense:

1. a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area

  Familiarity information: PORTICO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTICO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("portico" is a kind of...):

porch (a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "portico"):

narthex (portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church)

 Context examples 

As I passed the steps of the portico, I encountered, at the corner, a woman's face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I went myself at the summons, and found a small man crouching against the pillars of the portico.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

An occasional oil lamp at the corner of a street, or in the portico of some wealthy burgher, threw a faint glimmer over the shining cobblestones, and the varied motley crowd who, in spite of the weather, ebbed and flowed along every highway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)