: a usually uniformed attendant at the door of a building (such as a hotel or apartment building)
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Examples of doorman in a Sentence
we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab
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The memoir touches on doorman classics—the upstairs-downstairs dynamic, the uniforms, the reading of residents’ mailers, the end-of-year tip—but the doormen are the stars.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Jackie Elegant is happily locking down her dream home — a Gold Coast condo with a doorman — if not her dream mortgage rate.
—Sami Sparber, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
The doorman reserves the elevator for us and the whole ordeal takes less than 45 minutes.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024
The campaign will include images of The Connaught’s head doorman, Carl Holness, and Marni’s store manager, Kimpal Patel.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Jackie Elegant is happily locking down her dream home — a Gold Coast condo with a doorman — if not her dream mortgage rate.
—Sami Sparber, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
The doorman reserves the elevator for us and the whole ordeal takes less than 45 minutes.
—R29 Team, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024
The campaign will include images of The Connaught’s head doorman, Carl Holness, and Marni’s store manager, Kimpal Patel.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorman. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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doorman
noun
door·man
-ˌman 
-mən
: a person who tends a door (as of a hotel) and assists people (as by calling taxis)
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