Synonyms for ostiary

Synonyms for (noun) ostiary

Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, porter, hall porter, ostiary

Definition: someone who guards an entrance

Similar words: guard

Definition: a person who keeps watch over something or someone


Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary, doorkeeper

Definition: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Similar words: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend

Definition: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church


Similar words: Holy Order, Order

Definition: (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

Usage: theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order


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