pullman porter

1. 1.

   a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)

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Questions about pullman porter

What does pullman porter mean?

pullman porter means "a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)".

What is another word for pullman porter?

Close synonyms include porter. 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 pullman porter a common word?

pullman porter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.