as in janitor
a person who tends a door
he generously tipped the porter for hailing a taxi
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Recent Examples of porter
Hotels, recognizing that need, developed a person for the job: porters to move luggage.
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Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
The monthlies total $1,256 and cover the communal laundry room, bike storage, and the residents’ garden courtyards, along with 24-hour security guards and a building porter.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 June 2025
Fellow porters huffing their way up a hillside; the stars twinkling above the desert sand; the layered waves of Caroline Polachek’s staggeringly beautiful title song cresting over the horizon at just the right moment.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
Pullman porter jobs were good enough to lift some porters’ families into the middle class, especially after the formation of the first Black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2025
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Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
The monthlies total $1,256 and cover the communal laundry room, bike storage, and the residents’ garden courtyards, along with 24-hour security guards and a building porter.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 24 June 2025
Fellow porters huffing their way up a hillside; the stars twinkling above the desert sand; the layered waves of Caroline Polachek’s staggeringly beautiful title song cresting over the horizon at just the right moment.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
Pullman porter jobs were good enough to lift some porters’ families into the middle class, especially after the formation of the first Black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for porter
janitor
Noun
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How many janitors and clerks—who commute for hours from Tehran’s poorest suburbs—are now dead or injured?—
Siamak Namazi,
Time,
25 June 2025
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The janitors who clean their classrooms don’t have a four-year limit before being forced to find another job.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 June 2025
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“Porter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porter. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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