Doorkeeper

Origin

door + keeper

Full definition of doorkeeper

Noun

1. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.
• 1920, Willa Cather, 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.