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"Luggage carrier"

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɔɹtɚ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eoprrtStarts with PEnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. carry luggage or supplies

Word origin

From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
  • Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
  • the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers

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