Usually means: Carrier of luggage at hotels.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. porter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Porter, porter: Merriam-Webster
  3. porter, porter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. porter, porter, porter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. porter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Porter, porter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Porter, porter: Wordnik
  8. porter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Porter, porter: Wiktionary
  10. porter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. porter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. porter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Porter: Dictionary.com
  14. porter (1), porter (2), porter (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. porter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Porter (MBTA station), Porter (band), Porter (beer), Porter (carrier), Porter (college), Porter (disambiguation), Porter (doorkeeper), Porter (lunar crater), Porter (magazine), Porter (monastery), Porter (name), Porter (railroad), Porter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Porter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. porter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. porter: Rhymezone
  20. porter, porter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. porter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. porter: FreeDictionary.org
  23. porter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Porter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Porter, Porter: Management Methods, Models, and Theories
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Porter (disambiguation), porter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Porter (disambiguation), porter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Porter (disambiguation), Porter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Porter: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. PORTER, PORTER, PORTER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  4. PORTER: Acronym Finder
  5. SPIRITS Terminology (No longer online)
  6. porter: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Porter: Easton Bible
  2. Porter: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Porter: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.O.R.T.E.R, porter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Porter: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Happy Hour Spirit & Liqueur Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who carries luggage and related objects.
noun:  2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
noun:  (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
noun:  (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
noun:  (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
noun:  (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
noun:  (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
verb:  To serve as a porter; to carry.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  A unisex given name.
noun:  A placename in the United States:
noun:  A town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana.
noun:  A town and village in Oxford County, Maine.
noun:  A minor city in Yellow Medicine County and Lincoln County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
noun:  A town in Niagara County, New York, named after Augustus Porter.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio.
noun:  A town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
noun:  A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Porter Township.
noun:  Ellipsis of Porter County. [One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Valparaiso.]
noun:  Ellipsis of Porter Crater.

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