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
The monthlies are $1,937, which can be explained by your getting a 24-hour doorman, live-in super, and porter, plus private storage in the basement, bike and laundry rooms, and a Lincoln Square address.
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Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 29 Sep. 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
The $3,211 per month maintenance fees cover a part-time doorman and a fitness studio, while the location provides easy access to Madison Square Park plus all the shopping and dining that dots the area.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
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Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 29 Sep. 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
The $3,211 per month maintenance fees cover a part-time doorman and a fitness studio, while the location provides easy access to Madison Square Park plus all the shopping and dining that dots the area.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for doorman
Noun
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One August morning, after more than five years and five thousand attempts, a lab tech named Cliff Kortman—who had originally been hired as a janitor but came to run many of the lampricide tests—reported a different outcome.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Qing Yuan had seen many of these tiny corpses, pinkish, yellowish, tin-gray, curled up, always seemingly asleep, tossed by janitors into fires outside the building.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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He got married, had kids, and worked a job as a porter at Broadway theaters.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Picardo was most recently president and CEO of Holt Renfrew, and has previously held management roles at retailers and brands including Lane Crawford, Burberry, Net-a-porter and Alexander McQueen.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorman. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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