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porters

porters is the plural of porter.

porters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of porter.

Meaning of porter

Noun (1)

porter (plural porters)

  1. A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
    • goods porter
  2. An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
  3. One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
    • […] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.1998, Michael McMillan, Perl from the Ground Up, page 45

Noun (2)

porter (countable and uncountable, plural porters)

  1. (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
  2. (countable) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
  3. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.

See all 21 meanings of porter

Proper noun capitalized: Porters

Porters

  1. (plural) plural of Porter.

Phrases with porters

Questions about porters

What is porters the plural of?
Porters is the plural of porter.
What part of speech is porters?
Porters is a proper noun.

Words near porters in the dictionary

  1. porterhouses
  2. portering
  3. porterless
  4. porterlike
  5. porterly
  6. porters
  7. Porters Retreat
  8. porters' lodges
  9. portership
  10. porterships
  11. Porterville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porters (page history and authors); Porters (page history and authors); porter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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