Ostiary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Roman Catholic Church One who is ordained in the lowest of the former minor orders.
  • n. A church doorkeeper.
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  • n. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
  • n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
  • n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In the early church and in the Roman Catholic Church, the doorkeeper of a church.
  • n. The porter of a monastery.
  • n. A mouth of a river.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  • n. someone who guards an entrance
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    clergyman    order    man of the cloth    holy order    reverend   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    estuary    porter   
     
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