Doorkeeper vs Gatekeeper - What's the difference?
doorkeeper | gatekeeper |
The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.
* 1920 , Willa Cather,
A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate
A person or group who controls access to something or somebody
A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus , of the Nymphalidae family.
As nouns the difference between doorkeeper and gatekeeper
is that doorkeeper is the person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more while gatekeeper is a person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.doorkeeper
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(en noun)Youth and the Bright Medusa.
- The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theatre was warned not to admit him to the house; and Charley Edwards remorsefully promised the boy's father not to see him again.
