DOORKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doorkeeper mean? 

• DOORKEEPER (noun)
  The noun DOORKEEPER has 3 senses:

1. an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

2. the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

3. someone who guards an entrance

  Familiarity information: DOORKEEPER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOORKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doorkeeper; usher

Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doorkeeper; ostiarius; ostiary

Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who guards an entrance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

door guard; doorkeeper; doorman; gatekeeper; hall porter; ostiary; porter

Hypernyms ("doorkeeper" is a kind of...):

guard (a person who keeps watch over something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doorkeeper"):

commissionaire (a uniformed doorman)

night porter (a porter on duty during the night)

ticket collector; ticket taker (someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets)