porter
A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
Noun 4 meanings
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.”
An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
A person in control of the entrance to a building.
Verb 1 meaning
To serve as a porter; to carry.
Etymology
From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er.
PORTER at a glance
PORTER has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + R 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,260 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with porter
All rhymes- AFTER8
- BETTER8
- WATER8
- LATER5
- MATTER8
- CENTER8
- CHARACTER16
- DAUGHTER13
- MINISTER10
- COMPUTER14
- LETTER6
- SISTER6
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