Porter

Meaning of Porter

noun
  1. a person employed to carry luggage and other loads, especially in a railway station, airport, hotel, or market.
  2. dark brown bitter beer brewed from malt partly charred or browned by drying at a high temperature.
    a nice pint of porter
    the company produces a bottle-conditioned porter

Middle English: from Old French porteour, from medieval Latin portator, from Latin portare ‘carry’.

noun
  1. an employee in charge of the entrance of a hotel, block of flats, college, or other large building.
    a night porter

Middle English: from Old French portier, from late Latin portarius, from porta ‘gate, door’.

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Hyphenation of Porter

Porter

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • Porter is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Porter synonyms

Meaning doorkeeper:

doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, ostiary

Meaning a person or thing that carries, holds, or conveys something:

carrier

Meaning a carrier of equipment on an expedition:

bearer

Meaning a member of a Himalayan people living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet, renowned for their skill in mountaineering:

Sherpa

Meaning a member of the military police:

redcap

Meaning a porter at an airport:

skycap

Meaning a uniformed door attendant at a hotel, theatre, or other building:

commissionaire

Meaning a person employed to look after a building:

caretaker

Meaning a caretaker or doorkeeper of a building:

janitor

Meaning (especially in France) a resident caretaker of a block of flats or a small hotel:

concierge

Anagrams of Porter

porret, pretor, report, troper

Words that rhyme with Porter

Carter, Garter, Quarter, Winiwarter, aquarter, arter, autostarter, barter, bungstarter, carter, charter, darter, departer, disquarter, enquarter, forequarter, garter, headquarter, hindquarter, imparter, interquarter, karter, nonstarter, outbarter, outstarter, overquarter, parter, pearter, quarter, recharter, restarter, smarter, starter, subcharter, subquarter, tarter, thwarter, undercarter, ungarter, Herter, McWherter, alerter, animadverter, arterioverter, asserter, autoconverter, averter, cardioverter, coasserter, colberter

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