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doorkeeper

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door·keep·er  (dôrkpr, dr-)
n.
One who is employed to guard an entrance or gateway.

doorkeeper [ˈdɔːˌkiːpə]
n
1. (Business / Professions) a person attending or guarding a door or gateway
2. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church (formerly) the lowest grade of holy orders
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.doorkeeperdoorkeeper - an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
2.doorkeeper - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
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; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
3.doorkeeperdoorkeeper - someone who guards an entrance      
commissionaire - a uniformed doorman
guard - a person who keeps watch over something or someone
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
Translations
doorkeeper [ˈdɔːˌkiːpəʳ] Nportero/a m/f, conserje mf
doorkeeper [ˈdɔːrkiːpər] n [hotel] → portier m
doorkeeper [ˈdɔːˌkiːpəʳ] nportiere m
doorkeeper [ˈdɔːˌkiːpəʳ] nportiere m


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The old doorkeeper fussed out of the cloak-room with my hat.
All the officials sitting on the further side under the portrait of the Tsar and the eagle, delighted at any distraction, looked round at the door; but the doorkeeper standing at the door at once drove out the intruder, and closed the glass door after him.
He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out.
 
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