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porter meaning in Tamil

போர்ட்டர்

/ˈpɔːtə/US/ˈpɔɹtɚ/

porter in Tamil: போர்ட்டர், போர்டர். In English, porter means a person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.

Tamil words for porter

போர்ட்டர், போர்டர்

English meaning of porter

  1. noun A person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.
  2. noun An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
  3. noun One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
  4. noun A person in control of the entrance to a building.

Full definition of porter

porter in a sentence

  • By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

porter in other languages

Questions about porter in Tamil

What is the meaning of porter in Tamil?
Porter in Tamil is போர்ட்டர், போர்டர்.
porter என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Porter: போர்ட்டர், போர்டர்.
What does porter mean in English?
Porter means a person who carries luggage and related objects; (historically) one who carried luggage or did manual labour in the transloading of cargo.

Source and license

Tamil words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “porter”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: porter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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