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

2 senses of ostiary

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")

Sense 2
doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary -- (someone who guards an entrance)
       => guard -- (a person who keeps watch over something or someone)