as in janitor
a person who tends a door
the doorkeeper held the door open for us so we didn't have to put down our packages
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Recent Examples of doorkeeper
Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper?
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Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Both tickets’ corners are missing, presumably torn by the doorkeeper in question.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
The witnesses include Robert Contee, acting chief of police, Metropolitan Police Department; Steven Sund, former chief, U.S. Capitol Police; Michael Stenger, former Senate sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper; and Paul Irving, former House sergeant-at-arms.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
The doorkeeper, who is half-blind, won’t let him in.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
The doorkeeper with the cat’s eye is said to stay awake at night thereafter, looking for mice.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
The doctor replaces the doorkeeper’s blind eye with a cat’s eye, curing his sight.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Both tickets’ corners are missing, presumably torn by the doorkeeper in question.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
The witnesses include Robert Contee, acting chief of police, Metropolitan Police Department; Steven Sund, former chief, U.S. Capitol Police; Michael Stenger, former Senate sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper; and Paul Irving, former House sergeant-at-arms.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
The doorkeeper, who is half-blind, won’t let him in.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
The doorkeeper with the cat’s eye is said to stay awake at night thereafter, looking for mice.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
The doctor replaces the doorkeeper’s blind eye with a cat’s eye, curing his sight.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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“Doorkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorkeeper. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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