Wiktionary
n. A hotel worker who carries luggage to the rooms of guests.
WordNet
n. someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
Usage examples of "hall porter".
In the morning, the hall porter brings up the day's newspaper, freshly pressed with a hot iron.
It was collected from the hall porter by the addressee on his return from work.
She had her key in hand, but the moment the elevator door parted, the hall porter appeared from nowhere and opened her door for her.
When he reached the foyer, the hall porter pointed to a little table opposite the reception desk.
But by the time I got through to the hall porter it was too late -- she was on her way up to my room.
The hall porter gasped, and as he doubled over, Nick rewarded him with a jab to the chin.
From the hall porter he got a town plan and found Bayer's street in the suburb of Ostheim, a wellset-up area not far from the Villa Berg, in whose gardens the Princes of Wdrttemberg and their ladies had once disported themselves on summer nights.
On the third floor the bellman turned Rick over to a hall porter, who led the way down a long corridor, around a corner, down another corridor, around a corner, and three doors down to a room at the rear of the hotel.