Word Meanings - ANTEPORTICO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An outer porch or vestibule.

Related words: (words related to ANTEPORTICO)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• PORCH
  A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk.
• VESTIBULED TRAIN
  See VESTIBULE
• VESTIBULE
  The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall. Vestibule of the ear. See under Ear. -- Vestibule of the vulva , a triangular space between the nymphæ, in which the orifice of the urethra
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• POUTER
  A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
• CLOUTERLY
  Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
• ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
  To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.
• SOUTERRAIN
  A grotto or cavern under ground. Arbuthnot.
• COME-OUTER
  One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.
• ACCOUTERMENTS; ACCOUTREMENTS
  Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war! (more info) earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See
• SPOUTER
  One who, or that which, spouts.
• FOUTER
  A despicable fellow. Brockett.