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

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

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

n. One who guards the door or entrance of a house or an apartment, and admits persons entitled to admittance; a janitor.

n. In the early church and in the Roman Catholic Church, same as ostiary.

n. someone who guards an entrance

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

n. 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."

functionary    official    clergyman    order    man of the cloth    holy order    reverend   

porter    janitor    portress    janitress    janitrix    doorward    ostiary    tiler    usher    concierge   

scorekeeper    storekeeper   

postmaster    bellboy    janitor    stickleback    cabman    receptionist    sower    twenty-something