: a usually uniformed attendant at the door of a building (such as a hotel or apartment building)
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we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab
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Its ceilings are gilded in 24-karat gold and the doormen wear white top hats.
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2025
While the Arconia’s beloved human doorman is no longer with us, his name (sort of) lives on by way of the building’s new robot doorman, LESTR, which Howard tells us stands for Logic Engineered Secure Tenant Robot.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
In the new 10-episode installment (Hulu, weekly), Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Mabel Mora (Gomez) and Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) investigate the death of the building’s longtime doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca), found in an Arconia building fountain in the Season 4 finale.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Fowler's character, Randall, gets involved in the group of true crime enthusiasts when he's promoted to the position of head doorman at the Arconia after Lester's death.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2025
While the Arconia’s beloved human doorman is no longer with us, his name (sort of) lives on by way of the building’s new robot doorman, LESTR, which Howard tells us stands for Logic Engineered Secure Tenant Robot.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
In the new 10-episode installment (Hulu, weekly), Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin), Mabel Mora (Gomez) and Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) investigate the death of the building’s longtime doorman Lester (Teddy Coluca), found in an Arconia building fountain in the Season 4 finale.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Fowler's character, Randall, gets involved in the group of true crime enthusiasts when he's promoted to the position of head doorman at the Arconia after Lester's death.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorman. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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doorman
noun
door·man
-ˌman 
-mən
: a person who tends a door (as of a hotel) and assists people (as by calling taxis)
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