porte-cochere

1. 1.

   a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard

   Broaderentrance
2. 2.

   canopy extending out from a building entrance to shelter those getting in and out of vehicles

   Broadercanopy

Questions about porte-cochere

What does porte-cochere mean?

porte-cochere means "a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in porte-cochere?

porte-cochere has 4 syllables: por-te--co-chere. The stress falls on "te-".

Is porte-cochere a common word?

porte-cochere is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.