door guard

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   someone who guards an entrance

   Synonymsdoorkeeperdoormanhall porterportergatekeeperostiary

   Broaderguard

   Narrowercommissionairenight porterticket collector

Questions about door guard

What does door guard mean?

door guard means "someone who guards an entrance".

What is another word for door guard?

Close synonyms include doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is door guard a common word?

door guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.