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
Upon arriving in Namche, the expedition used 60 yaks and 400 porters to ferry gear to the base of the mountain.
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Bhadra Sharma, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
He got married, had kids, and worked a job as a porter at Broadway theaters.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
—Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
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.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2025
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Bhadra Sharma, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
He got married, had kids, and worked a job as a porter at Broadway theaters.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.
—Scott Yorko, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
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.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for porter
janitor
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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
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“Porter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porter. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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