Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Doorkeeper \Door"keep`er\, n.
One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a
porter; a janitor.
Source : WordNet®
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}]