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doorkeeper

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: doorkeeper

1
n
someone who guards an entrance
2
n
the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: doorkeeper
1

n someone who guards an entrance

Synonyms:
door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter
Types:
commissionaire
a uniformed doorman
night porter
a porter on duty during the night
ticket collector, ticket taker
someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets
Type of:
guard
a person who keeps watch over something or someone

n an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

Synonyms:
usher
Type of:
functionary, official
a worker who holds or is invested with an office
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n the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Synonyms:
ostiarius, ostiary
Type of:
clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Holy Order, Order
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
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