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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Examples
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Then a pretty little girl, Tilly Turtelle, who seemed quite a premature flirt, proposed "doorkeeper" -- a suggestion accepted with great _eclat_ by all the children, several grown people assenting.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900
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He took them and, shutting the door of the closet upon Abu Sir, fared forth without telling any; and the doorkeeper was then at market and thus saw him not go out.
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The doorkeeper will be the Commonwealth summit's host, President
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The doorkeeper was a tall, willowy man wearing a jacket and pantaloons of brown silk.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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In this case we can't believe the doorkeeper is the man's subordinate.
The Trial Franz Kafka 1903
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'Where the doorkeeper is a churl, what will folk say of the master of the house?' said Scudamore.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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'Where the doorkeeper is a churl, what will folk say of the master of the house?' said Scudamore.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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Whether the maid who was told off by the elder Milton to sit up till twelve or one o'clock in the morning for this wonderful Pauline realized that she was a kind of doorkeeper in the house of genius, and blessed accordingly, is not known, and may be doubted.
Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891
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In this case we can’t believe the doorkeeper is the man’s subordinate.
The Trial 1925
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This was gained by descending again to the cellar, by surrendering the brass check to a burly doorkeeper, and by climbing a long flight of stairs into the upper regions.
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