: a usually uniformed attendant at the door of a building (such as a hotel or apartment building)
Synonyms of doorman
Examples of doorman in a Sentence
we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab
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Quinn was the doorman at a nearby dope house where, shortly before the murders, drugs were stolen.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Monthlies are a very friendly $928 (the Dorchester is a mortgage-free co-op) and buy you a concierge, a doorman, an elevator, a super, a bike room, a package room, parking, storage, and a gym.
—Katie McDonough, Curbed, 16 Feb. 2026
While the focus remains on the central couple, both characters have relationship side-plots of their own, Bessette with a doorman turned Calvin Klein model (Noah Fearnley) and Kennedy with movie star Daryl Hannah, played by Hemingway.
—Arushi Jacob, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Square-jawed detectives were tripping over corpses at midtown construction sites, blind vigilantes were redecorating Hell’s Kitchen with body parts and even poor Lester the doorman ended up dead in an Upper West Side courtyard fountain.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
Monthlies are a very friendly $928 (the Dorchester is a mortgage-free co-op) and buy you a concierge, a doorman, an elevator, a super, a bike room, a package room, parking, storage, and a gym.
—Katie McDonough, Curbed, 16 Feb. 2026
While the focus remains on the central couple, both characters have relationship side-plots of their own, Bessette with a doorman turned Calvin Klein model (Noah Fearnley) and Kennedy with movie star Daryl Hannah, played by Hemingway.
—Arushi Jacob, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
Square-jawed detectives were tripping over corpses at midtown construction sites, blind vigilantes were redecorating Hell’s Kitchen with body parts and even poor Lester the doorman ended up dead in an Upper West Side courtyard fountain.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorman. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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doorman
noun
door·man
-ˌman 
-mən
: a person who tends a door (as of a hotel) and assists people (as by calling taxis)
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