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NIGHT PORTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does night porter mean?
• NIGHT PORTER (noun)
The noun NIGHT PORTER has 1 sense:
1. a porter on duty during the night
Familiarity information: NIGHT PORTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A porter on duty during the night
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("night porter" is a kind of...):
door guard; doorkeeper; doorman; gatekeeper; hall porter; ostiary; porter (someone who guards an entrance)
Context examples
The night porter saw nothing, I suppose?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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