doormen

plural of doorman
as in janitors
a person who tends a door we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab

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Recent Examples of doormen One of the doormen stops me and asks where the others are. Clio Chang, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025 Its ceilings are gilded in 24-karat gold and the doormen wear white top hats. Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2025 Teddy was doing his own research on this, and Emory Cohen, who plays young Lester, dove deep and talked to a lot of doormen, trying to find out the history and the details and the specifics of decorum. Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025 From the doormen who greet you to the staff who take your bags, from the tableside cocktail service to the valet at departure, every interaction carries the same sense of care. Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • 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
  • Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The dynamic confined many elite Sherpas to working as porters, kitchen boys and high-altitude helpers.
    Bhadra Sharma, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Doormen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doormen. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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