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Gatekeeper   /gˈeɪtkˌipər/   Listen
Gatekeeper

noun
1.
Someone who controls access to something.
2.
Someone who guards an entrance.  Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter.





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"Gatekeeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... none have seen him, that I know, but the gatekeeper. He was brought at once to Lady ...
— Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III. • Henrik Ibsen
... great bluff heights can be seen, and at the point where the roads cross, where the tall trunks are listed with golden light, stands a large wooden gate and a small box-like lodge. A lonely place in a densely-populated county. The gatekeeper is blind, and his flute sounds doleful and strange, and ...
— A Mere Accident • George Moore
... his friend held up the gatekeeper of the fair association and got away with three ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine


Words linked to "Gatekeeper" :   individual, person, someone, somebody, night porter, ticket collector, commissionaire, guard, soul, mortal, ticket taker, porter


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