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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) A doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household.
Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung. I will pay you.
He reached the doorway of his house in a state of mental discouragement which enabled him to receive with apparent indifference an official-looking envelope from the dirty hand of the dvornik.
My mother kept a cook and a nursemaid, and a dvornik, or outdoor man, to take care of the horses, the cow, and the woodpile.
Use dvornik when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dvornik means (archaic) A doorman, porter, janitor, or groundskeeper in a Russian household.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Go to my dvornik and help him to remove the dung. I will pay you.
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