as in janitors
a person who tends a door
he generously tipped the porter for hailing a taxi
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Recent Examples of porters
This is a black IPA, relying heavily on the roasted malts more typically used in porters and stouts.
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Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Best known as Travelers Rest’s first craft brewery, this spot is a local favorite popular for its world-class selection of beers, with everything from pale ales to porters.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
They’re joined, of course, by dark beers, porters, stouts, doppelbocks, and others that have remained impenetrably opaque, plus several styles of beer that are usually unfiltered, such as kellerbiers, gose, Belgian wits, saisons, and others.
—Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Best known as Travelers Rest’s first craft brewery, this spot is a local favorite popular for its world-class selection of beers, with everything from pale ales to porters.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
They’re joined, of course, by dark beers, porters, stouts, doppelbocks, and others that have remained impenetrably opaque, plus several styles of beer that are usually unfiltered, such as kellerbiers, gose, Belgian wits, saisons, and others.
—Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porters
janitors
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The Teamsters union includes cooks and other food service workers, as well as groundskeepers, janitors, parking attendants, maintenance workers, mechanics and more.—
Emma McNamee,
Twin Cities,
9 Sep. 2025
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And there is good reason companies still employ janitors to sweep floors despite the invention of the Roomba and commercial versions of robotic sweepers like Avidbots’ Neo.—
Will Yakowicz,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Porters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porters. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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