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Porter

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Noun

1. porter

a person employed to carry luggage and supplies

2. door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter

someone who guards an entrance

3. katherine anne porter, porter

United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)

4. cole albert porter, cole porter, porter

United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)

5. o. henry, porter, william sydney porter

United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)

6. porter, pullman porter

a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)

7. porter, porter's beer

a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley

Verb

8. porter

carry luggage or supplies

Example Sentences:
'They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Porter

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noun
1. 
a person employed to carry luggage, parcels, supplies, etc, esp at a railway station or hotel
2. 
(in hospitals) a person employed to move patients from place to place
3. US and Canadian
a railway employee who waits on passengers, esp in a sleeper
4. East Africa
a manual labourer
noun
1. mainly British
a person in charge of a gate or door; doorman or gatekeeper
2. 
a person employed by a university or college as a caretaker and doorkeeper who also answers enquiries
3. 
a person in charge of the maintenance of a building, esp a block of flats
4. Also called: ostiary Roman Catholic Church
a person ordained to what was formerly the lowest in rank of the minor orders
noun
British
a dark sweet ale brewed from black malt
noun
1. 
Cole. 1893–1964, US composer and lyricist of musical comedies. His most popular songs include Night and Day and Let's do It
2. 
George, Baron Porter of Luddenham. 1920–2002, British chemist, who shared a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1967 for his work on flash photolysis
3. 
Katherine Anne. 1890–1980, US short-story writer and novelist. Her best-known collections of stories are Flowering Judas (1930) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
4. 
Peter. 1929–2010, Australian poet, lived in Britain
5. 
Rodney Robert. 1917–85, British biochemist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1972 for determining the structure of an antibody
6.  William Sidney. original name of O. Henry

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Porter

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1. 
Cole (koʊl ) ; kōl) 1891-1964; U.S. composer of popular songs
2. 
David1780-1843; U.S. naval officer & diplomat
3. 
ˈDavid Dixon (ˈdɪksən ) ; dikˈsən) 1813-91; Union admiral in the Civil War: son of David
4. 
Lord George1920-2002; Brit. chemist
5. 
Katherine Anne1890-1980; U.S. short-story writer, essayist, & novelist
6. 
Rodney Robert1917-85; Brit. biochemist
see Henry2 (sense 13)
noun
1. 
a doorkeeper or gatekeeper
2.  Roman Catholic Church; Obsolete
the lowest of the four minor orders
noun
1. 
a person who carries luggage, etc. for hire or as an attendant at a railroad station, hotel, etc.
2.  US
an employee who sweeps, cleans, does errands, etc. as in a bank, store, or restaurant
3.  US
a railroad employee who waits on passengers in a sleeper or parlor car
4. 
a dark-brown beer made from charred or browned malt and produced by rapid fermentation at a relatively high temperature

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Porter

see synonyms of porter
n.
1. A person employed to carry burdens, especially an attendant who carries travelers' baggage at a hotel or transportation station.
2. A railroad employee who waits on passengers in a sleeping car or parlor car.
3. A maintenance worker for a building or institution.
n.
Chiefly British
One in charge of a gate or door.
n.
A dark beer resembling light stout, made from malt browned or charred by drying at a high temperature.
American writer whose short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, are collected in such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906).
British biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the molecular structure of antibodies.
American writer known for her carefully crafted short stories as well as her novel Ship of Fools (1962). She won a Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Stories (1965).
American filmmaker whose The Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery (both 1903) were among the first effectively edited films.
American composer and lyricist remembered for his witty and sophisticated Broadway scores for musicals such as Anything Goes (1934).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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