carport

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑː(ɹ).pɔːt/ (UK)

Definition of carport

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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.”

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Etymology

From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).

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