'Doorkeeper' definitions:
Definition of 'doorkeeper'
(from WordNet)
noun
An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper]
noun
The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church [syn: doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius]
noun
Someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
Definition of 'Doorkeeper'
From: GCIDE
- Doorkeeper \Door"keep`er\, n. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'doorkeeper'
From: Easton
- 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.
Synonyms of 'doorkeeper'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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