concierge
(noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
concierge (plural concierges)
One who attends to the wishes of hotel guests.
(British) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
• caretaker
• custodian
• janitor
• cogeneric
Source: Wiktionary
Con`cierge", n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 June 2025
(noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time); “his detention was politically motivated”; “the prisoner is on hold”; “he is in the custody of police”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
