Doorman

A doorman, also known as doorkeeper, is someone who is posted at, and often guards, a door, or by extension another entrance (specific similar terms exist, e.g. Gatekeeper, Hall porter)

Specific uses include:

• Doorman (profession)
• Bouncer (doorman), mainly security
• Usher, often ceremonial
• Ostiary, ecclesiastical minor order
• Doorkeeper badged officer of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament
• Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
• "Doorman" (song), a rock song by Stereophonics from the album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Other uses

Persons

• Doorman (surname)
  • Karel Doorman Dutch Rear Admiral who died in 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea.
• Doorman (comics), a Marvel Comics fictional superhero
• SS Doorman, a Second World War Dutch merchant ship
• Doorman (Kunduz), a village in Kunduz Province in Afghanistan

See also

• Chancellor, originally posted at a door post
• The Bouncer, a Playstation 2 beat 'em up game

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