(n.) One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Example Sentences:
(1) He intends to be a sotto voce lord, and made a modest, self-effacing maiden speech earlier this month in which he thanked not just his fellow peers for making him welcome but the doorkeepers and two of the catering staff.
(2) Saltire flags stand furled in its magnificent, liner-like hallway and saltire badges are pinned in the lapels of its doorkeepers and attendants.
Tiler
Definition:
(n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
(n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
Example Sentences:
(1) asks Richard Glover A In 1990 England's U-21 squad won the eight-nation tournament in Toulon for the first time with the following squad: Crossley, Muggleton, Lee, Sharpe, Le Saux, Barrett, Tiler, Sherwood, James, Ebbrell (capt.
(2) The roof tiler was then taken to Bowral police station where he later slumped to the ground and died.
(3) A former carpenter (Chapman) and roof tiler (Bustin) from Norwich, who became personal trainers and, in October 2011, decided to share their expertise on YouTube, pulling in a muscular 41,000 subscribers in the process.
(4) Instead he works as a tiler whenever he gets the chance.
(5) He also found there was little awareness about roofs being a "typically dangerous electrical place" among other professionals such as builders, tilers, painters and pest controllers and also among homeowners.
(6) Ed Miliband seems a bit of a schoolboy.” Steve, a 53-year-old tiler, is also considering voting Tory because they have “more of a backbone” than other parties.
(7) The accident, in which five people died, including his friend and employer, the Bournemouth managing director Brian Tiler, left him with no sense of smell and a pronounced facial tic.
(8) So what exactly makes a top tiler, premier plasterer or world-class window dresser?