Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PORTER

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Definitions of PORTER

1. A person who carries luggage and related objects.
2. To serve as a porter; to carry.
3. (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
4. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
5. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
6. (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
7. (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
8. A occupations surname from occupations.
9. A unisex given name
10. A placename in USA:
11. (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.

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Examples of Using PORTER in a Sentence

• After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak arrived during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s.
• Porter George Blanchard (February 28, 1886 – November 1, 1973) was an American silversmith living and working in Pacoima, California.
• Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper.
• February 15 – Endymion Porter is voted to be a "dangerous counsellor" by the English parliament.
• Morton also wrote "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last being a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
• Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession.
• Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack.
• The Emperor Jones is a 1920 tragic play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
• "Volver a Empezar" (song), a 1981 Spanish-language version, by Julio Iglesias, of "Begin the Beguine", written by Cole Porter.
• Classic pop includes the song output of the Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Hoagy Carmichael, and Cole Porter.
• The city is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the valleys of the River Don with its four tributaries: the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf.
• The county was formed in 1889 and named for Harry Porter Deuel, superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad.
• Merman introduced many Broadway standards, including "I Got Rhythm" from Girl Crazy, "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Some People" and "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy, and the Cole Porter songs "It's De-Lovely" (from Red, Hot and Blue), "Friendship" (from Du Barry Was a Lady), and "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", and "Anything Goes" (from Anything Goes).
• Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Farragut was fostered by naval officer David Porter after the death of his mother.
• Federally, Portola Hills is located in California's 45th congressional district, which is represented by Democrat Katie Porter.
• In 1872, after a scientist discovered a European snail (Cornu aspersum, formerly Helix aspersa) living on a small mountain, Rufus King Porter, the founder of what is now unincorporated Spring Valley, California, named the peak Mt.
• The ranch, and the small adobe house he built there, were sold to Rufus King Porter and later to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft.
• Preston Porter Jr, a sixteen-year-old African-American male, had confessed under duress to the murder of eleven-year-old Louise Frost who was Caucasian.
• Charles Ethan Porter (–1923), an African-American still-life painter, lived in the Rockville neighborhood as a child.
• Porter (née Finley) moved from New Salem, Fayette County, Pennsylvania to Illinois with their son Ebenezer F.
• The area that is now the Town of Hypoluxo was first settled in 1884 by Andrew Walton Garnett, James Edward Hamilton and James William Porter.
• After hearing a sermon by 19th-century preacher Samuel Porter Jones, the town adopted the name "Newborn", after the concept of born again in Evangelical Christianity.
• Porter, who had Connecticut roots, as the one who denominated both the new village as Middletown (after Middletown, Connecticut) and the post office as Mahomet (after Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem from Connecticut).
• Limberlost Cabin, completed in 1895, was the home Gene Stratton-Porter shared with her husband, Charles Porter, and their daughter, Jeannette (Geneva HS '05).
• It is bordered by Gary and unincorporated Calumet Township, Lake County, to the north; Hobart to the northeast; Union Township, Porter County, to the east; Winfield and Crown Point to the south; Schererville to the west; and Griffith to the northwest.

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