Carport
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors.
"Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage."
- 2 garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles wordnet
Example
More examples"Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage."
Etymology
From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).