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# porter

«porter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to carry bags or loads, for example…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (porters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A porter is a person whose job is to carry bags or loads, for example at a station or a hotel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/#m1)

2) (old use) A porter is a doorkeeper who guards the gate or entrance of a building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a worker who carries heavy loads, or a gatekeeper at a great house

### examples

- The porter carried our bags to the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/#x1)
- The porters carried the baskets up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/#x2)
- The porter opened the great gate for the visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/4/)
- [Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/14/)
- [And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.209/)
- [And of the singers: Eliashib; and of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.266/)
- [And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother Shallum the chief;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/1CH.426/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «porter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/porter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.