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noun
- 1. a person employed to look after a building; a caretaker. North American
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JANITOR definition: 1. a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the…. Learn more.
1. : one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs. 2. : doorkeeper. Synonyms. caretaker. custodian. guardian. keeper. warden. watchman. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of janitor in a Sentence.
Janitor definition: a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker. . See examples of JANITOR used in a sentence.
A janitor is someone whose job is cleaning and maintaining a building. If your school always looks clean and orderly, be sure to thank the janitor.
1. One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building. 2. A doorman or doorwoman. [Latin iānitor, doorkeeper, from iānua, door, from iānus, archway; see ei- in Indo-European roots.] jan′i·to′ri·al (-tôr′ē-əl) adj.
a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Protection and protectors. adoptable. aegis. anti-shark. anti-skid. chaperone. cybersecurity. defense mechanism. den mother. doorkeeper. elder care. precaution. preservationist. ring-fence
A janitor is a person whose job is to look after a building. [mainly US] On this morning the janitor was cleaning the windows and had temporarily left them open. Synonyms: caretaker, porter [British], custodian, concierge More Synonyms of janitor. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
Definition of janitor noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
someone whose job is to look after a building: the school janitor. (Definition of janitor from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of janitor. in Chinese (Traditional) 管理員，看護人… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 管理员，看护人… See more. in Spanish.
a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker. [Archaic.]a doorkeeper or porter. v.i. to be employed as a janitor. Latin jānitor doorkeeper, equivalent. to jāni- (combining form of jānus doorway, covered passage) + -tor - tor. 1575–85.
