doorkeeper

«doorkeeper» in Mova's school dictionary: a person whose job is to guard a door, check who comes in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (doorkeeper, doorkeepers)

meaning for a pupil

A doorkeeper is a person whose job is to guard a door, check who comes in and go out, and open the door for people. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, the doorkeeper is a servant or guard who decides who may enter a palace, house or temple.

examples

• The doorkeeper asked for our tickets before we went in. tree →
• Only the king's friends could pass the doorkeeper. tree →
• The doorkeeper locked the gate at night. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'
• For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
• These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «doorkeeper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.