Meaning & use
sleeping porch
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Meaning
nouncountable
A porch attached to a house, usually screened or partly enclosed, that is used as a place to sleep in warm weather.
Grammar: Used with on: sleep on the sleeping porch.
Patterns
- sleep on the sleeping porch
- a screened sleeping porch
Before air conditioning, the children slept on the sleeping porch in summer.
The old farmhouse has a screened sleeping porch on the second floor.
They turned the sleeping porch into a small study.
Word forms
| plural | sleeping porches |
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Common combinations
- a screened sleeping porch
- The cabin has a screened sleeping porch.
- on the sleeping porch
- We spent hot nights on the sleeping porch.
- enclose a sleeping porch
- They enclosed the sleeping porch to add a bedroom.
- an upstairs sleeping porch
- An upstairs sleeping porch caught the evening breeze.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
Commonly confused: sleeping porch or sleeping bag?
sleeping porch vs sleeping bag
A sleeping bag is a padded bag for camping, while a sleeping porch is part of a building.
Practice
Before air conditioning, many families slept on the ___ during hot summer nights.
Choose one answer.
A sleeping porch was built for sleeping in warm weather and usually has screens. A garage floor is not meant as a bedroom.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “sleeping porch”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.