Synonyms of the word

gatekeeper

• n. A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
• n. A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
• n. A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the Nymphalidae family.

doorkeeper

• n. The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.

doorman

• n. A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons taxicabs, and provides an element…

guard

• n. A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
• n. (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
• n. The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
• n. A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
• n. (Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
• n. (basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
• n. (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket;…
• n. (American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles,…
• n. (sports) A player playing a position named guard.
• n. (rail transport) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the…
• n. (computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution…
• v. To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
• v. To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
• v. To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
• v. To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces,…
• v. To fasten by binding; to gird.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

ostiary

• n. The mouth of a river; an estuary.
• n. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

porter

• n. A person who carries luggage and related objects.
• n. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
• n. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
• n. A person in control of the entrance to a building.
• n. (bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
• n. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters, similar to a stout but less strong.
• n. (Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
• v. To serve as a porter; to carry.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.