OSTIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ostiary mean? 

• OSTIARY (noun)
  The noun OSTIARY has 2 senses:

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

2. someone who guards an entrance

  Familiarity information: OSTIARY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doorkeeper; ostiarius; ostiary

Hypernyms ("ostiary" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who guards an entrance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

door guard; doorkeeper; doorman; gatekeeper; hall porter; ostiary; porter

Hypernyms ("ostiary" is a kind of...):

guard (a person who keeps watch over something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ostiary"):

commissionaire (a uniformed doorman)

night porter (a porter on duty during the night)

ticket collector; ticket taker (someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets)