porter

1. 1.

   carry luggage or supplies

   “They portered the food up Mount Kilimanjaro for the tourists”

   Broadertransport

Other forms of porter

plural

porters·

past tense

porterred·

present participle

porterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about porter

What does porter mean?

porter means "a person employed to carry luggage and supplies". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in porter?

porter has 2 syllables: por-ter. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹtɚ/.

What is another word for porter?

Close synonyms include doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, gatekeeper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porter a common word?

porter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with porter?

3 words rhyme with porter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.