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porter

45 4.9

A dark, sweet beer made from roasted barley with a rich taste

noun
/ˈpɔrtər/

: cerveza porter

We had bottled porter and sandwiches.

Examples

Sighing, Justin sipped the hard-won Anchor Porter... and made a horrible face.

Fiction book (1999)
I'll have the Porter make your reservations.

Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
I enjoyed a rich, dark porter while sitting by the fireplace.
After a long day, he relaxed with a cold porter and a good book.
The brewery specializes in crafting a variety of porter beers with unique flavors.

Synonyms

beer

vsporter

∞ 1.0

A drink made from grains and hops that contains alcohol

is a specific dark sweet variety produced from roasted unmalted barley

stout

vsporter

9 5.0

A very dark, strong beer with a rich taste

is similar but milder and sweeter rather than mainly strong and heavy

porter's beer

vsporter

7.4

A very dark, sweet beer made from roasted barley

has identical meaning but uses the simpler unpossessed name

Compounds

night porter

1 4.8

A person who works in a hotel at night and helps guests

Pullman porter

Archaic

1 8.6

A person who works on a train and helps passengers in sleeping cars

hall porter

1 6.5

A person who works at a building entrance and helps visitors in hotels or university halls

Baltic porter

7.5

A dark, strong beer from countries near the Baltic Sea that is made in cool conditions and tastes rich

How Dark

stout

9 5.0

porter

45 4.9

pale ale

2 2.8

lager

18 2.3

Surface Forms

porter singular

porters plural

Morphology

porter = port (opaque) = port + er

Though formed from 'port' + '-er', the beer sense is a historical naming (associated with porters/drinkers) and its meaning is not derivable from 'to carry'.

Etymology

Porter (beer) got its name from the workers called porters who 'carried' goods and liked to drink this strong, dark ale, so the beer simply took the name of the people who drank it.