Doorkeeper

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  • noun. One who is employed to guard an entrance or gateway.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who guards the door or entrance of a house or an apartment, and admits persons entitled to admittance; a janitor.
  • noun. In the early church and in the Roman Catholic Church, same as ostiary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who guards an entrance
  • noun. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
  • noun. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
    • Word Usage
    "Then a pretty little girl, Tilly Turtelle, who seemed quite a premature flirt, proposed "doorkeeper" -- a suggestion accepted with great _eclat_ by all the children, several grown people assenting."
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