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One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. -- Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second…

Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. -- Money order. See under Money. -- Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. -- Order book. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered.

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also tyler.]