Usually means: Covered entrance supported by columns.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. portico: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. portico: Merriam-Webster
  3. portico: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. portico: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. portico: Collins English Dictionary
  6. portico: Vocabulary.com
  7. Portico, portico: Wordnik
  8. portico: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Portico, portico: Wiktionary
  10. portico: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. portico: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. portico: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Portico, portico: Dictionary.com
  14. portico: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. portico: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Portico (disambiguation), Portico: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Portico: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. portico: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. portico: Rhymezone
  20. Portico, portico: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. portico: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. portico: FreeDictionary.org
  23. portico: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Portico: The Word Detective
  25. portico: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. portico: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Portico: CCI Computer
  2. portico: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See porticoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
noun:  The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).

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