Hallway vs. Porch

Hallwaynoun

A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

Porchnoun

(architecture) A covered and enclosed 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.

Hallwaynoun

an interior passage or corridor in a building, onto which rooms open.

Porchnoun

A portico; a covered walk.

Hallwaynoun

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open;

‘the elevators were at the end of the hall’;

Porchnoun

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. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.

‘The graceless Helen in the porch I spiedOf Vesta's temple.’;

Hallwaynoun

another term for hall (sense 1 of the noun)

Porchnoun

A portico; a covered walk.

‘Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us.’;

Porchnoun

a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus , from porta ) is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and forms a low front.

‘colonnade’; ‘passage’;