Meaning

A person who carries luggage and related objects..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who carries luggage and related objects.
2. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
3. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
4. (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
5. (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
6. (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
7. (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
8. To serve as a porter; to carry.

Example Sentences

By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.

the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers

The man who carries your luggage at the station is a "red cap", not a porter. The Canadian porter is the man who makes up the beds in the sleeping cars.

As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.

Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.

[…] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.

‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.

Word Forms

• porters
• portering
• portered

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When Should You Use Porter?

Use porter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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