Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is employed to guard an entrance or gateway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a
doorman , sometimes something more.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
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door + keeper
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