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noun
1.
a person employed in an apartment house, office building, school, etc., to clean the public areas, remove garbage, and do minor repairs; caretaker.
2.
Archaic. a doorkeeper or porter.
verb (used without object)
3.
to be employed as a janitor.
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Origin:
1575–85; < Latin jānitor doorkeeper, equivalent to jāni- (combining form of jānus doorway, covered passage) + -tor -tor
1575–85; < Latin jānitor doorkeeper, equivalent to jāni- (combining form of jānus doorway, covered passage) + -tor -tor
Related forms
un·der·jan·i·tor, noun
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- Everyone from the janitor to the president should be required to submit criminal records.
- He would have won the case even if he had been a janitor.
- Steichen prepared for the shoot by having a janitor sit in for the magnate while he perfected the lighting.
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Word Origin & History
janitor
1584, "an usher in a school, doorkeeper," from L. janua "door," from janus "arched passageway" (see Janus) + agent suffix -tor. Meaning "caretaker of a building" first recorded 1708.
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