janitor
(noun) someone employed to clean and maintain a building
Source: WordNet® 3.1
janitor (plural janitors) (female: janitress or janitrix (rare))
(chiefly, US) Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
(Scotland) A caretaker or custodian; someone who maintains a school building specifically and may serve other administrative roles.
A doorman.
• maintenance person
• (mostly British) caretaker
• cleaner
• (British) concierge
• custodian
• (One who cleans and maintains a garden): groundskeeper
• (One who maintains a collection, especially in a museum): curator
• porter
Source: Wiktionary
Jan"i*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. janua a door.]
Definition: A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
