Definition of Porter

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Porter

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.

A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.

A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.

A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.

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Porter Quotations

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
Gene Tierney

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Ethel Merman

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.
Ethel Merman

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
Ethel Merman

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Marvin Hamlisch

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
Kevin Kline

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
J. P. Donleavy

Porter Translations

porter in Afrikaans is kruier
porter in Danish is drager, portier
porter in French is porteur
porter in Italian is portiere, facchino
porter in Latin is baiulus, ianitor
porter in Portuguese is carregador, porteiro
porter in Spanish is bagajero, mozo, portero

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