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? Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025 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 The team also took a closer look at Harwa, a mummified individual who lived around 3,000 years ago and was a granary’s doorkeeper. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024 Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper? 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 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, 30 Mar. 2024 Both tickets’ corners are missing, presumably torn by the doorkeeper in question. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023

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“Doorkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorkeeper. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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