chiefly British
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 The menu includes ales, porter and stouts, IPAs and more. Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 2 Aug. 2025 After the bar closed for the night, a bunch of teenagers took over the place; either the porters didn’t notice or didn’t care. John Darnielle, Pitchfork, 24 July 2025 Home to eight of the world’s ten highest peaks, a dense network of trails, and an unrivaled trekking infrastructure of lodges, guides, and porters, Nepal is perhaps the world’s ultimate hiking destination. Bradley Mayhew, Outside Online, 2 July 2025 Busquets is a Venezuelan businesswoman best known as the majority cofounding investor of Net-a-porter and as a vocal proponent of sustainability. Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for porter
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janitor
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  • Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a janitor who gets transformed into a grotesque mutant after a bizarre accident.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But with Winston’s newfound powers as the Toxic Avenger, Garbinger soon comes to regret his decision to neglect the janitor-turned-superhero who dispatches of the bad guys in particularly gruesome ways.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Porter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porter. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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