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JANITOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does janitor mean?
• JANITOR (noun)
The noun JANITOR has 1 sense:
1. someone employed to clean and maintain a building
Familiarity information: JANITOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone employed to clean and maintain a building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("janitor" is a kind of...):
custodian; keeper; steward (one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals)
Context examples
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor's work with which he was to pay his way through.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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