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Doorkeeper
//ˈdôr-ˌkē-pər// noun
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Noun
- 1 The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes responsible for security in the immediate area of the entryway, similar to a bouncer.
"The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theatre was warned not to admit him to the house; and Charley Edwards remorsefully promised the boy's father not to see him again."
- 2 someone who guards an entrance wordnet
- 3 the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church wordnet
- 4 an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber wordnet
Etymology
Compound of door + keeper.
See also for "doorkeeper"
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