doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary
(noun) someone who guards an entrance
doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius
(noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ostiary (plural ostiaries)
The mouth of a river; an estuary.
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Source: Wiktionary
Os"ti*a*ry, n.; pl. -ries. Etym: [L. ostium door, entrance. See Usher.]
1. The mouth of a river; an estuary. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
2. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter. N. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
