carport

English

A red car sits under a carport made of wood and glass.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑː(ɹ).pɔːt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

carport (plural carports)

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. [from 1936]

   Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage.

Descendants

• → German: Carport

Translations

roofed structure for automobile storage

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車棚／车棚 (chēpéng)

• Danish: carport (da) c
• Finnish: autokatos (fi)
• French: auvent (fr) m
• German: Carport (de) m
• Norwegian: carport
• Polish: wiata (pl) f, zadaszenie (pl) n, podjazd (pl) m
• Russian: наве́с для автомоби́ля m (navés dlja avtomobílja)
• Spanish: cochera (es) f, marquesina (es) f (Caribbean)