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 Definitions of porter  [ˈpɔr tər, ˈpoʊr-]  

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Definition of 'porter' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) porter
a person hired to carry packages or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.

2.  porter
a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc.

3.  porter
an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car.

4. (n.) porter
a person who has charge of a door or gate; doorkeeper.

5. (n.) porter
a heavy, dark brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.

6. (n.) Porter
Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.

7.  Porter
Sir George, born 1920, British chemist: Nobel prize 1967.

8.  Porter
Katherine Anne, 1890–1980, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.

9.  Porter
Rodney Robert, 1917–85, British biochemist: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1972.

10.  Porter
William Sydney (“O. Henry”), 1862–1910, U.S. short-story writer.


Definition of 'porter' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) porter
a person employed to carry luggage and supplies

2. (noun) doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary
someone who guards an entrance

3. (noun) Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)

4. (noun) Porter, Cole Porter, Cole Albert Porter
United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)

5. (noun) Porter, William Sydney Porter, O. Henry
United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)

6. (noun) porter, Pullman porter
a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)

7. (verb) porter, porter's beer
a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley

8. (verb) porter
carry luggage or supplies
"They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists"


Definition of 'porter' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) porter
sb whose job is to help carry suitcases in a hotel, station, etc.
Remember to tip the porter.

2.  porter
a hospital orderly
a hospital porter


Definition of 'porter' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) porter
a man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages

2. (noun) porter
a carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire

3. (noun) porter
a bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar

4. (noun) porter
a malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities


Translation of 'porter' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a person whose job is to carry luggage in a railway station etc
The old lady could not find a porter to carry her suitcase from the train.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: karweier Arabic flag Arabic: بَوّاب، حَمّال Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: носач
Brazilian flag Brazilian: carregador Czech flag Czech: nosič German flag German: der Gepäckträger
Danish flag Danish: drager Greek flag Greek: αχθοφόρος Spanish flag Spanish: mozo de equipajes, malete
Estonian flag Estonian: pakikandja Farsi flag Farsi: باربر Finnish flag Finnish: vaunupalvelija
French flag French: porteur/-euse Hebrew flag Hebrew: סַבָּל Hindi flag Hindi: कुली
Croatian flag Croatian: nosač Hungarian flag Hungarian: hordár Indonesian flag Indonesian: kuli
Icelandic flag Icelandic: burðarmaður Italian flag Italian: facchino Japanese flag Japanese: 赤帽
Korean flag Korean: 짐꾼 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nešikas Latvian flag Latvian: nesējs
Malay flag Malay: pelayan kereta api Dutch flag Dutch: kruier Norwegian flag Norwegian: bærer
Polish flag Polish: bagażowy Persian flag Persian: باربر Pashto flag Pashto: بار وړونكى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: carregador Romanian flag Romanian: hamal Russian flag Russian: носильщик
Slovak flag Slovak: nosič Slovenian flag Slovenian: nosač Serbian flag Serbian: nosač
Swedish flag Swedish: bärare, stadsbud Thai flag Thai: พนักงานยกกระเป๋าบนรถไฟ Turkish flag Turkish: hamal
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (火車站等的)行李搬運工人 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: носильник, носій Urdu flag Urdu: حمال، قلي
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: người khuân vác hành lý Chinese flag Chinese: (火车站等的)行李搬运工人

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