OSTIARY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • someone who guards an entrance
   Synonym(s)
   • doorkeeper (what does doorkeeper mean?)
   • doorman (what does doorman mean?)
   • door guard (what does door guard mean?)
   • gatekeeper (what does gatekeeper mean?)
   • hall porter (what does hall porter mean?)
   • porter (what does porter mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) ostiary is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • guard (what does guard mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • commissionaire (what does commissionaire mean?)
   • night porter (what does night porter mean?)
   • ticket collector (what does ticket collector mean?)
   • ticket taker (what does ticket taker mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
   Synonym(s)
   • doorkeeper (what does doorkeeper mean?)
   • ostiarius (what does ostiarius mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) ostiary is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • clergyman (what does clergyman mean?)
   • reverend (what does reverend mean?)
   • man of the cloth (what does man of the cloth mean?)
   • holy order (what does holy order mean?)
   • order (what does order mean?)