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View definitions for doorkeeper

doorkeeper

noun as in gatekeeper

Strongest match

noun as in porter

noun as in usher

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Example Sentences

Juggling those multiple criteria would present a major challenge for immigration officials, airline check-in counters and other doorkeepers.

From Time

The Senate post is officially called the sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, harking back to its 18th-century duties of keeping members inside the Capitol to conduct the business of government.

His lordship, as we know, was away, and on his return questioned the doorkeeper as to the name of his visitor.

The doorkeeper answered in a very discourteous way that it was none of his business where the senators were.

He soon brought him to the stranger, who then gave his card to the doorkeeper and asked him to call at his hotel that evening.

I scared up a doorkeeper and was ready at the proper time, and by pure good luck a tolerably good house assembled and I was saved.

And a moment later the two associates were talking earnestly near the doorkeeper's lodge.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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