noun. One who is employed to guard an entrance or gateway.

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.

noun. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

noun. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.

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

"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."

clergyman  functionary  holy order  man of the cloth  official  

scorekeeper  storekeeper  

bellboy  cabman  janitor  postmaster  receptionist  

acolyte  acolytus  cerberus  concierge  concierge