doorkeeper

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
noun the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
noun someone who guards an entrance

Compound of door + keeper.

Raoul rushed into the doorkeeper's lodge. — The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
“Who was that came in?” he asked the doorkeeper. — Anna Karenina, Leo, graf Tolstoy
"But there's a doorkeeper at the bottom," said Fosdike. — The best British short stories of 1922, Unknown

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