Meaning

6 senses
  1. A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.

    Torwächter, Torwächterin, Torwächter

    someone who guards an entrance

  2. (figuratively)A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.

    someone who controls access to something

  3. A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.

  4. In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.

  5. One who gatekeeps.

  6. A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The lady and her dog that were entering at the gate were stopped by the gatekeeper.

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  2. I was challenged by a gatekeeper.

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  3. The gatekeeper permitted me through the gate.

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  4. The gatekeeper is closing the door behind them.

    ruПривратник закрывает за ними дверь.

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  5. Julius goes to the door, which the gatekeeper opens.

    ruЮлий идёт к двери, которую открывает привратник.

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Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who guards or monitors passage through a gate:

Origin

From gate + keeper.

From gate + keeper.

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Forms

plural: gatekeepers
Singulargatekeeper
Pluralgatekeepers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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