porter
porter is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
- noun. A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.
- noun. A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
- noun. A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
- noun. a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- noun. someone who guards an entrance
- noun. a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- noun. a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- noun. United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
- noun. United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)
- noun. United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980)
- verb. carry luggage or supplies
"They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists"
Synonyms
doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, ostiary
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in porter:
porret, pretor, report, troper
Common word forms
porters, portered, porterly, portering
Words from these letters
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