Porte-cochere: alternatives and connections

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name w…

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

Entrance or place of a door.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…

A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a s…

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put up…

Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, fig…

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.

The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage a…

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…

A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice…