Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ostiarius

1 sense of ostiarius

Sense 1
doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius -- (the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church)
       => clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth -- (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; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order")