noun
Meaning 1
The mouth of a river; an estuary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ostiary
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/ˈɒsti.əɹi/
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/ˈɒst͡ʃəɹi/
noun
Meaning 2
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ostiarius
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
someone who guards an entrance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: guard
Narrower terms: commissionaire, night porter, ticket collector, ticket taker
noun
Meaning 4
the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doorkeeper, ostiarius
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth, Holy Order, Order
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ostiārius, from ostium (“door, entrance”). See usher, which may be a doublet.