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 →

2) (old use) A porter is a doorkeeper who guards the gate or entrance of a building. tree →

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 →
• The porters carried the baskets up the hill. tree →
• The porter opened the great gate for the visitors. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• A man who comes home at strange hours may be a hospital porter on night shifts.
• Strange hours often mean a shift worker, like a nurse, porter or baker, keeping everyone safe and fed.
• And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within.
• And of the singers: Eliashib; and of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
• And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother Shallum the chief;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «porter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.