Synonyms:
portico
Meaning: a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
Usage examples
One by one the tourists disappeared under the portico of the front door.
They were expected, and Miss Carlyle went through the hall to receive them, and stood on the upper steps, between the pillars of the portico.
"Women of the people are here too now, lying in the portico there waiting. But for ladies of higher rank two rooms have been built adjoining the portico, but outside the precincts--you can see the windows--and the elder goes out to them by an inner passage when he is well enough.