doorkeeper
Americannoun
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a person who guards the entrance of a building.
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British. a janitor; hall porter.
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Roman Catholic Church. ostiary.
noun
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a person attending or guarding a door or gateway
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RC Church (formerly) the lowest grade of holy orders
Etymology
Origin of doorkeeper
Example Sentences
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However, the report said a Parliamentary doorkeeper had witnessed the incident.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2022
The zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity, and only long enough to let visitors sneak quickly out.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
To become a “sworn brother,” Bosch would have had to qualify as one of the four grades of minor orders, which were doorkeeper, reader, acolyte and exorcist.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
“He has either skill or power, or the doorkeeper wouldn’t have let him in. Why shouldn’t he show it, now as well as later? Right, Sparrowhawk?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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