[
UK
/dˈɔːkiːpɐ/
]
[ US /ˈdɔɹˌkipɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɔɹˌkipɝ/ ]
NOUN
- the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
- an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- someone who guards an entrance
How To Use doorkeeper In A Sentence
- Then he fell a-weeping and a-wailing but the doorkeeper said to him, “No harm shall befal thee, and Allah will requite him his deed.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Only the sight of the doorkeeper brought me to a standstill. ULTIMATE PRIZES
- This was gained by descending again to the cellar, by surrendering the brass check to a burly doorkeeper, and by climbing a long flight of stairs into the upper regions. COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
- Then a pretty little girl, Tilly Turtelle, who seemed quite a premature flirt, proposed "doorkeeper" -- a suggestion accepted with great _eclat_ by all the children, several grown people assenting. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
- The doorkeeper gave the alarm as soon as he saw the smoke.
- These were a doorkeeper, four seated scribes with their document boxes, an overseer and his assistant, and three laborers.
- The doorkeeper said nobody in costume had left the theatre.
- From 1976 to 1983, he was the assistant doorkeeper in the House.
- `The doorkeeper will get round to letting us in sooner or later," Garin remarked. A TIME OF WAR
- He suggested that the ‘men in tights’, the doorkeepers in 18th century outfits who currently guard the entrances to the Commons were no match for the aggressive young men who staged the protest.