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Gatekeeper vs Gamekeeper - What's the difference?

gatekeeper | gamekeeper |

As nouns the difference between gatekeeper and gamekeeper

is that gatekeeper is a person who guards or monitors passage through a gate while gamekeeper is a person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. Often shortened to keeper.

gatekeeper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • gamekeeper

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gamekeeper) (en noun)
  • A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. Often shortened to .