Porter

Porter

1. a crater in Clavius, LQ26 quadrangle, Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System

   Synonym: Clavius B

2. a crater in Thaumasia Quadrangle, Aonia Terra, Mars, Solar System

• Porter (lunar crater) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Porter (Martian crater) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Middle English Porter, from porter (“porter”),

• From Old French portier (“doorman”), from porte (“door”)
• From Old French portour (“bearer”), from porter (“to carry”)

Porter (countable and uncountable, plural Porters)

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
   • 2023 July 12, Brian Fung, “Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The pixels’ use in a taxpayer context resulted in the “reckless” sharing of legally protected data that could put taxpayers at risk, according to the report by Warren and her Democratic colleagues Sens. Ron Wyden; Richard Blumenthal; Tammy Duckworth; and Sheldon Whitehouse; Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats; and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter.

2. A unisex given name.
3. A placename in the United States:
   1. A town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana.
   2. A town and village in Oxford County, Maine.
   3. A minor city in Yellow Medicine County and Lincoln County, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
   5. A town in Niagara County, New York, named after Augustus Porter.
   6. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio.
   7. A town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
   8. An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas.
   9. An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia.
   10. A town in Rock County, Wisconsin.
   11. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Porter Township.
   12. Ellipsis of Porter County.
   13. Ellipsis of Porter Crater.

• French: Porter

• Perrot, perrot, porret, pretor, proter, report, troper

Borrowed from English Porter.

Porter ?

1. a surname, Porter, from English
   1. a surname, variant of Portier

From porter.

Porter

1. a surname

• English: Porter
• Yola: Portheare

• “Porter”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.