What is another word for porters?

Pronunciation: [pˈɔːtəz] (IPA)

Porters are individuals who are responsible for carrying heavy items or luggage, particularly in hotels. There are a variety of different terms that can be used to refer to porters, depending on their specific role or location. Bellhops are commonly used in hotels, while skycaps are generally used in airports to assist with luggage. Some other synonyms for porters include baggage handlers, bearers, carriers, and packers. Additionally, door attendants, concierges, and valets may also aid in transportation and carrying, particularly for guests of high-end establishments. Each of these terms carries a slightly different connotation, but they all refer to individuals who are available to assist with moving items from one location to another.

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Usage examples for Porters

Stas for some time hesitated whether he should point out to the negroes the ravine in which he had hidden the wares and supplies left by Linde, which owing to want of porters he could not take with him, but reflecting that the possession of such treasures might evoke envy and discord among them, awaken covetousness, and embroil the peace of their lives, he abandoned this design, and, instead, shot a big buffalo and left its meat for a farewell feast.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The variety of costumes, the songs of the negro porters, the chiming of church bells, the diversity of languages and faces, German, French, and Italian, all contribute to give a strange and lively aspect to the city.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
The morning wind blew up the platform, the train rolled in; there were porters, but Mr. Zanti had only a big brown bag which he kept with him.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole

Famous quotes with Porters

  • A state of princes; a skulk of friars; a skulk of thieves; an observance of hermits; a lying of pardoners; a subtiltie of serjeants; an untruth of sompners; a multiplying of husbands; an incredibility of cuckolds; a safeguard of porters; a stalk of foresters; a blast of hunters; a draught of butlers; a temperance of cooks; a melody of harpers; a poverty of pipers; a drunkenship of coblers; a disguising of taylors; a wandering of tinkers; a malepertness of pedlars; a fighting of beggars; a rayful, (that is, a netful) of knaves; a blush of boys; a bevy of ladies; a nonpatience of wives; a gagle of women; a gagle of geese; a superfluity of nuns; and a herd of harlots. Similar terms were applied to inanimate things, as a caste of bread, a cluster of grapes, a cluster of nuts, &c.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Men smell of leather. … The leather of huntsmen, furniture movers, porters.
    Renée Vivien
  • He seemed to lose interest in the subject of his daughter, glooming at a yellow card of ancient railway regulations on the wall. But when the harbingers of the coming train were audible – porters trundling, a scrambled gabble from the station announcer, frantic blowing on hot tea – he became eager again and was out swiftly on to the platform. I followed him. The train slid in. I saw the driver look down disdainful from his cosy hell, sharing – like soldier and auxiliary – a mystique with the tea-room woman. Passengers, disillusioned with arrival, got out greyly amid grey steam; passengers, hungry for the illusion of getting somewhere, jostled their way on.
    Anthony Burgess

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