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 rise in hotel porters is commensurate with the rise in travel.
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Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
These breweries have a variety of styles to try — IPAs, gose, porters and lagers.
—Katrina Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 12 May 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
Players start out making these deliveries on foot — inspired by the real-life traditional Japanese porters known as Bokka.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
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Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
These breweries have a variety of styles to try — IPAs, gose, porters and lagers.
—Katrina Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 12 May 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
Players start out making these deliveries on foot — inspired by the real-life traditional Japanese porters known as Bokka.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for porter
janitor
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The Jerusalem branch of the Vatican’s Caritas federation named two of the dead as Saad Salameh, 60, the church’s janitor, and Fumayya Ayyad, 84, who had been sitting inside a Caritas psychosocial support tent when the blast sent shrapnel and debris flying.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
20 July 2025
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An 84-year-old woman and the parish's 60-year-old janitor were killed in the strike while the parish priest, Father Romanelli, was lightly injured, the Associated Press reported.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 July 2025
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“Porter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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