Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building.
- n. A doorman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A doorkeeper; a porter.
- n. A man employed to take charge of rooms or buildings, to see that they are kept clean and in order, to lock and unlock them, and generally to care for them.
Wiktionary
- n. someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
- n. a doorman
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic A door-keeper; a porter.
- n. One who is employed to care for a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.; a caretaker; -- the duties may include removal of trash, cleaning of the rooms and public areas, and minor repairs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone employed to clean and maintain a building
Etymologies
- Latin ianitor (doorkeeper) (Wiktionary)
- Latin iānitor, doorkeeper, from iānua, door, from iānus, archway. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Likewise the janitor is not expected to make decisions on the firms new product line.”
Academic Self-Selection, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“February 25th, 2010 at 10: 20 am ralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says: pezmiztix says: bob, typical progressive compassion on display … .. being a janitor is somehow below human standards ….”
“Two hours after a game ends, a janitor is cleaning the locker rooms and finds Wallace dead in the showers ...”
“If you get promoted from assistant janitor at the Shell station to night janitor, is that far?”
“I called the janitor again and told him to fetch those grasshoppers he had taken away.”
“I called the janitor to my room and had a chat for about two hours.”
“The very hall porter has gone out of town for his holiday, and the page-boy who officiates as temporary janitor is not quite certain about your name and gives you somebody else's letters.”
“Someone call the janitor, we have a BIG mess again.”
“I like how they call the janitor, rather than trained professionals.”
“Clamm asked, irritated now that the janitor should be his most reliable source of information.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘janitor’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Job names
accountant, salesman, actor, galley slave, actress, captain, lumberjack, janitor, judge, policeman, reporter, anchor and 7 more...
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The condom-free preserve
Italian-English false friends.
One a day, maybe even less.
Contributors: Prolagus, bilbypreservative, engross, camera, janitor, dent, fastidious, morbid, crude, juvenile, bald, confetti, pollution and 29 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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A Recipe for Uselessness
Stuff I've done, organizations I've been part of, unique points of interest regarding my past. Each factor plays a role in who I have become today.
boy scouts, spelling bee, homeschool, debate team, toastmasters, sailing, church, candy striper, horseback riding, karate, aikido, web design and 49 more...
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'j' words
Because I couldn't think of any the other day, I thought of some now.
justice, jackdaw, jeremiad, jussive, jansky, jark, jarl, jobbernowl, jarta, julep, jinker, jebel and 33 more...
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what should i be when i grow up
janitor, salesperson, advertiser, journalist, seamstress, maid, clerk, author, librarian, scientist, astronaut, politician and 7 more...
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Words that makes a good day
Tweets
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bilby Ha, this is not the most obvious of false friends so well-spotted! Mar 23, 2009
Prolagus Genitore means parent, while janitor can be translated as custode or inserviente.
I'd like to dedicate this award to my janitors, who made me the man I am. Mar 23, 2009