as in janitor
a person who tends a door
we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab
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Recent Examples of doorman
And also the likes of Jermaine Fowler, who is so incredible in this season, who plays Randall the doorman and Beanie Feldstein.
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H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The car door closed, and the doorman was suddenly standing directly in our path.
—James Barron, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Nowhere is this more apparent than one of the first kisses shared between Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a privileged white video game designer, and Richie (Raúl Castillo), the Mexican club doorman hopelessly in love with him.
—James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
He’s even backed up his theory with evidence from the doorman at Miles’s building.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
The car door closed, and the doorman was suddenly standing directly in our path.
—James Barron, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Nowhere is this more apparent than one of the first kisses shared between Patrick (Jonathan Groff), a privileged white video game designer, and Richie (Raúl Castillo), the Mexican club doorman hopelessly in love with him.
—James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
He’s even backed up his theory with evidence from the doorman at Miles’s building.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doorman
Noun
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The same workers who keep this country running every single day—home care aides, teachers, bus drivers and janitors who can’t afford to get sick.—
Linda Goler Blount,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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In Indiana, a church hired a janitor convicted of molesting a 7-year-old girl.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The company’s luxury e-commerce websites are Mytheresa, Net-a-porter and Mr Porter.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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By then, the preeminent fashion genius of the third quarter of the 20th century and the designer so often credited with inventing the modern woman’s wardrobe had handed prêt-à-porter over to his assistants, who clung as if by commandment to the house dogma of bourgeois Parisian elegance.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorman. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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