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DOORKEEPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who guards an entrance
Synonyms:
door guard; doorkeeper; doorman; gatekeeper; hall porter; ostiary; porter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind of...):
guard (a person who keeps watch over something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doorkeeper"):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Synonyms:
doorkeeper; ostiarius; ostiary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind 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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
Synonyms:
doorkeeper; usher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
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