Definitions for Porter

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Porter por·ter

Spelling: [pawr-ter, pohr-]

IPA: /ˈpɔr tər, ˈpoʊr-/

Porter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in Porter (eoprrt).

Definitions for Porter

noun

1. a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel.
2. a person who does cleaning and maintenance work in a building, factory, store, etc.
3. an attendant in a railroad parlor car or sleeping car.
4. a person who has charge of a door or gate; doorkeeper.
5. Roman Catholic Church. ostiary (def 1).
6. a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.
7. Cole, 1893–1964, U.S. composer.
8. David, 1780–1843, U.S. naval officer.
9. his son, David Dixon [dik-suh n] /ˈdɪk sən/ (Show IPA), 1813–91, Union naval officer in the Civil War.
10. Edwin Stanton, 1870–1941, U.S. film director.
11. Gene (Gene Stratton Porter) 1868–1924, U.S. novelist.
12. Sir George, 1920–2002, British chemist: Nobel prize 1967.
13. Katherine Anne, 1890–1980, U.S. writer.
14. Noah, 1811–92, U.S. educator, writer, and lexicographer.
15. Rodney Robert, 1917–85, British biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1972.
16. William Sydney ("O. Henry") 1862–1910, U.S. short-story writer.
17. a male given name.
18. the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft, facing forward.

adjective

1. pertaining to or designating port.
2. located on the left side of a vessel or aircraft.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to turn or shift to the port, or left, side.

Origin of Porter

1350-1400; Middle English, variant of portour Middle French porteour Late Latin portātōr- (stem of portātor). See port⁵, Examples for Porter

It was monumental, a great victory not only for porter and the Innocence Project, but for the principle of justice.

porter turned into the box, and taking the chair the other pushed toward him, sat down.

porter was convicted and shortly after sentenced to death by a judge who compared him to a shark in a feeding frenzy.

To the porter who answered his ring he handed the message to be put off at the first stop.

Months later, porter still shakes his head while telling the story.

There had been great unison in the porter household over the placing of Alan.

At that time, with the eyewitnesses all pointing at porter, the case seemed open and shut.

The president of the Montgomery NAACP, Pullman porter E. D. Nixon, saw an opportunity.

The porter family were not the only dwellers of Brookfield who took part in racing.

Even in the porter household, which was at Ringwood Farm, was divided allegiance.