janitor

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Etymology

Latin ianitor (doorkeeper)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒænɪtə/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ{nIt@/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒænɪtɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"dZ{nIt@`/

Noun

janitor (plural janitors) (female: janitress or janitrix (rare))

1. (chiefly US) someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
2. a doorman

Synonyms

• maintenance person
• (mostly British) caretaker
• cleaner
• (UK) concierge
• custodian
• (One who cleans and maintains a garden): groundskeeper
• (One who maintains a collection, especially in a museum): curator
• porter

Translations

caretaker

• Armenian: (cleaning) հավաքարար (hy) (havak’arar)
• Czech: domovmík (cs) m, domácí (cs) m and f, domovnice (cs) f
• Dutch: concierge (nl)
• Finnish: huoltomies (fi), talonmies (fi), siivooja (fi), (colloquial) talkkari (fi)
• French: concierge (fr) m and f
• German: Hausmeister (de) m, Hausmeisterin (de) f, Hauswartin (de) f, Hauswart (de) m

• Hungarian: házfelügyelő (hu), gondnok (hu)
• Indonesian: marbot (id), pesuruh (id)
• Polish: woźny m, woźna f
• Russian: дворник (ru) (dvórnik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: domar (sh) m
• Spanish: conserje (es) m, bedel (es) m

doorman

• Armenian: դռնապան (hy) (dṙnapan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 看門人 (cmn), 看门人 (cmn) (kānménrén)

• Czech: vrátný (cs) m, vrátná (cs) f
• Dutch: portier (nl)
• Finnish: vahtimestari (fi), ovimies (fi), ovenvartija (fi), (dated) portieeri (fi), (colloquial) portsari (fi)
• French: portier (fr) m
• German: Pförtner (de) m, Pförtnerin (de) f

• Hungarian: portás (hu), kapus (hu)
• Irish: doirseoir (ga) m
• Japanese: 玄関番 (ja) (げんかんばん, genkanban)
• Russian: швейцар (ru) (švejcár) m, портье (ru) (port'jé) m (indeclinable), консьерж (ru) (kons'jérž) m, вахтёр (ru) (vaxtjór) m, вахтёрша (ru) (vaxtjórša) f
• Serbo-Croatian: vratar (sh) m, portir (sh) m
• Spanish: portero (es) m, portera (es) f
• Swedish: vaktmästare (sv) c

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• Slovene: hišnik (1), vratar (2)