: a usually uniformed attendant at the door of a building (such as a hotel or apartment building)
Examples of doorman in a Sentence
we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab
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The full-service building, near the border of Greenwich Village and the East Village, also has a full-time doorman, storage, and a laundry room.
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Kim Velsey, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
For 10 years, Hackman studied acting and worked as a doorman, furniture mover, women's shoe salesman, Howard Johnson's counterman: everyman jobs.
—Ty Burr, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
The brightwork is polished to a mirror shine, the terra-cotta-and-marble floor would pass a white-glove test, and opposite the doorman’s desk is a mural that was salvaged from the Russian Tea Room’s old location, across the street.
—airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
The city’s early shift was clocking in: doormen hosing down sidewalks, food vendors setting up their carts, doctors in scrubs streaming into the N.Y.U. hospital.
—James Barron, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Kim Velsey, Curbed, 28 Feb. 2025
For 10 years, Hackman studied acting and worked as a doorman, furniture mover, women's shoe salesman, Howard Johnson's counterman: everyman jobs.
—Ty Burr, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
The brightwork is polished to a mirror shine, the terra-cotta-and-marble floor would pass a white-glove test, and opposite the doorman’s desk is a mural that was salvaged from the Russian Tea Room’s old location, across the street.
—airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
The city’s early shift was clocking in: doormen hosing down sidewalks, food vendors setting up their carts, doctors in scrubs streaming into the N.Y.U. hospital.
—James Barron, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for doorman
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“Doorman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorman. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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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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