Doorkeeper

//ˈdôr-ˌkē-pər// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    someone who guards an entrance wordnet
  3. 3
    the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church wordnet
  4. 4
    an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber wordnet

Etymology

Compound of door + keeper.

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