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Meanings of doorkeepers in English

Russian
портье
Portuguese
porteiro
Spanish
portero
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Person whose job it is to monitor and open the door of a semi-public building.

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      Usage of doorkeepers in English
      1
      Finally one of the doorkeepers made his voice heard above the scuffling:
      The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
      2
      One of his doorkeepers he intrusted with the government of the city.
      History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
      3
      Neither are the doorkeepers of the Capitol, strange as it may seem.
      Sketches New and Old
      4
      Two doorkeepers placed before the bar a stool with three steps.
      The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
      5
      It was amazing how all stage doorkeepers looked the same.
      The last illusion
      6
      Persons who served as doorkeepers or in any other capacity received ten dollars each.
      A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
      7
      The doorkeepers say that I am in the country.
      Cleopatra — Volume 03
      8
      The porters or doorkeepers were in number seven hundred.
      History of the Moors of Spain
      9
      These more numerous arrivals met with no hesitation on the part of the two doorkeepers.
      Number Seventeen
      10
      Several policemen hurried to the assistance of the doorkeepers.
      The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
      11
      The two doorkeepers with great hands were pressing back a threatened irruption from the corridor.
      The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
      12
      He approached the doorkeepers and asked them for alms.
      The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
      13
      The very doorkeepers had hardly treated them with respect.
      Can You Forgive Her?
      14
      And Barachias, and Elcana, were doorkeepers of the ark.
      The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
      15
      The proscription extended to tidewaiters, to gaugers, to doorkeepers.
      Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
      16
      I should add that most stage doorkeepers are surly too, at least until they know you.
      The last illusion
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      Translations for doorkeepers
      Portuguese
      porteiro
      Spanish
      portero
      Doorkeepers through the time
      Doorkeepers across language varieties
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