Synonyms for porter
Most common
door-keeper hall porter gate-keeper ostiary janitor concierge
All synonyms
Noun
1. Hall porter
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
Related words
- Word family
- porterhouse
- Phrases
- hall porter porter's lodge
Forms
- Plural
- porters → door-keepers, gate-keepers, ostiaries, janitors…
Example sentences
- janitor Tom is a janitor at the school where Mary teaches.
- concierge A concierge ought to treat all guests carefully.
By length
- 7 letters
- carrier3, janitor3, ostiary
- 9 letters
- concierge3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (carrier3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- porteur
- Italiano
- portatore
- Español
- mozo
- Deutsch
- Gepäckträger