sunporch

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US/ˈsʌnˌpɔɹt͡ʃ/

noun

A porch used for its abundant sunlight.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounsunporch (plural sunporches)

plural sunporches · alternative sun-porch · alternative sun porch

  1. A porch used for its abundant sunlight.

    Half an hour later, Joan glanced over the moribund cactuses in the sun-porch window and saw a raincoated, hatless man, with a head like a polished globe of copper, optimistically ringing at the front door of her neighbor’s beautiful brick house.

    1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 2.2, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 33

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

sunporch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunporch

MLA

“sunporch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunporch. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sunporch,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sunporch.

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