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
There’s a bathroom behind where the doormen work.
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Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
In the final hour of season five, the starring trio of Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) finally point the finger (literally) at the person who killed beloved doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca).
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
So who killed the Arconia’s beloved doorman?
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
And also the likes of Jermaine Fowler, who is so incredible in this season, who plays Randall the doorman and Beanie Feldstein.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
In the final hour of season five, the starring trio of Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) finally point the finger (literally) at the person who killed beloved doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca).
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
So who killed the Arconia’s beloved doorman?
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
And also the likes of Jermaine Fowler, who is so incredible in this season, who plays Randall the doorman and Beanie Feldstein.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 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 9 Nov. 2025.
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