doorman

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Most people don't have a doorman and rarely will the postman leave the package for you.

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someone who guards an entrance

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noun

someone who guards an entrance

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for doorman.

noun

someone who guards an entrance

See also: doorkeeper, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary

Example sentences

Most people don't have a doorman and rarely will the postman leave the package for you.

Your reader's attention span is like a snotty doorman at a hot club.

- No place to leave packages during the day if you live in an apartment with no doorman.

How many people live in an apartment with no front doorman, or requires a buzz code to get in?

Anyone can wave at the doorman and take the elevator up to the office for a rummage around.

If we met in private does the government have the right to compel the doorman to reveal these details indiscriminately?

Hence, he's looking for buildings with no doorman and no live-in super, since those would be more likely to notice his illicit activity.

Even with a cover charge, even when most people have work tomorrow, even when the machines cost 25 per play, the doorman was turning people away because the building was at its occupancy limit.

Vancouver, Canada, where a 1BR in the poshest, yuppiest corner of town, in a new high-rise with a doorman, clubhouse, pool, sauna, jacuzzi, and glorious skyline view costs about $1100 a monthReally?

I'm guessing when I first went there in 2003, it was even lower.- in 2006 I visited and remember having to make my way around a gauntlet of guys in doorman uniforms, who's job it was to bow to people entering the hotel, and another guy who's job it was to push the "up" button to request an elevator.