Found 4 hits - Term: doorkeeper, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
doorkeeper \door"keep`er\, n.
one who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a
porter; a janitor.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
doorkeeper
n 1: an official doorkeeper as in a courtroom or legislative
chamber syn: usher
2: the lowest of the minor holy orders in the unreformed
western church but now suppressed by the roman catholic
church syn: ostiary, ostiarius
3: someone who guards an entrance syn: doorman, door guard,
hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary
see also:
usher ostiary ostiarius doorman door guard hall porter
porter gatekeeper
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 moby thesaurus words for "doorkeeper":
acolyte, acolytus, cerberus, concierge, deacon, diaconus, doorman,
exorcist, exorcista, gatekeeper, holy orders, janitor, lector,
major orders, minor orders, ostiarius, ostiary, porter, presbyter,
priest, reader, receptionist, subdeacon, subdiaconus, usher,
warden
- [4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
door-keeper
this word is used in ps. 84:10 r.v. marg., "stand at the
threshold of," etc., but there it signifies properly "sitting
at the threshold in the house of god." the psalmist means that
he would rather stand at the door of god's house and merely look
in, than dwell in houses where iniquity prevailed.
persons were appointed to keep the street door leading into
the interior of the house john 18:16, 17; acts 12:13.
sometimes females held this post.
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