gatekeeper

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. noun A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
3. noun A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
4. noun In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
5. noun One who gatekeeps.
6. noun A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)

Similar words

doorkeeper doorman hall porter porter door guard guard warden warder guardian watchman

Often followed by

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Word family

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