gatekeepern.

Etymology: < gate n.¹ + keeper n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgate-keeper.

1. One who has charge of a gate.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper

doorwardc950

gate-wardc1000

porter?a1300

ostiary?a1475

portitor1480

doorkeeper1535

gatekeeper1572

janitora1640

conciergea1697

hall-keeper1705

durwan1773

commissioner1820

lodge-keeper1855

doorman1858

lodge-man1892

commissionaire1895

dvornik1903

linkman1939

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Gate keeper, or a porter.

1712 London Gaz. No. 5028/1 That the Gate-keepers give constant Attendance at the Gates.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. xii. 288 The gate-keeper ought not to have let them pass.

1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/2 There is no general duty on railway companies to place gatekeepers at level crossings.

figurative.1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 59 The products of every clime were thus brought to Rome, ‘the gatekeeper of the world’.

2. A species of butterfly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Satyridae > genus Hipparchia > hipparchia megaera (gate-keeper)

gatekeeper1819

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 240 Hipparchia Megæra (gate-keeper).

a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 227 The Gatekeeper butterfly is common.

Draft additions June 2003

In extended use: a person or thing that controls access to something, or that monitors and selects information, etc.

ΚΠ

1867 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 157 35 Sabatier speaks of the verumontanum as the gate-keeper of the prostatic portion of the urethra.

1909 Times 4 Mar. 6/4 A new claim has now been set up, on the ground that the Mahomedans are ‘the gatekeepers of India’.

1947 Human Relations 1 145/2 Gate Sections are governed either by impartial rules or by ‘gate keepers’. In the latter case an individual or group is ‘in power’ for making the decision between ‘in’ or ‘out’.

1960 W. Schramm Mass Communications (ed. 2) 176 All along the chain are a series of gatekeepers, who have the right to open or close the gate to any message that comes along... The first gatekeeper is the person who sees the news happen... The second gatekeeper is the reporter who talks to this ‘news source’.

1984 N.Y. Times 15 May a1 Congress did not intend to create an elaborate independent counsel machinery..only to establish the Attorney General as the ‘gatekeeper’ of that machinery, able, without the slightest review by anyone, to open the gate or slam it shut as it may suit his purpose.

2002 Independent 28 Feb. i. 1/1 After more than 50 years in which GPs have jealously guarded their position as ‘gatekeepers’ to the NHS.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	gatekeeper
释义	gatekeepern. Etymology: < gate n.¹ + keeper n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgate-keeper. 1. One who has charge of a gate. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > usher > door- or gate-keeper doorwardc950 gate-wardc1000 porter?a1300 ostiary?a1475 portitor1480 doorkeeper1535 gatekeeper1572 janitora1640 conciergea1697 hall-keeper1705 durwan1773 commissioner1820 lodge-keeper1855 doorman1858 lodge-man1892 commissionaire1895 dvornik1903 linkman1939 1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Gate keeper, or a porter. 1712 London Gaz. No. 5028/1 That the Gate-keepers give constant Attendance at the Gates. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. xii. 288 The gate-keeper ought not to have let them pass. 1896 Law Times Rep. 73 615/2 There is no general duty on railway companies to place gatekeepers at level crossings. figurative.1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 59 The products of every clime were thus brought to Rome, ‘the gatekeeper of the world’. 2. A species of butterfly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Satyridae > genus Hipparchia > hipparchia megaera (gate-keeper) gatekeeper1819 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 240 Hipparchia Megæra (gate-keeper). a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 227 The Gatekeeper butterfly is common. Draft additions June 2003 In extended use: a person or thing that controls access to something, or that monitors and selects information, etc. ΚΠ 1867 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 157 35 Sabatier speaks of the verumontanum as the gate-keeper of the prostatic portion of the urethra. 1909 Times 4 Mar. 6/4 A new claim has now been set up, on the ground that the Mahomedans are ‘the gatekeepers of India’. 1947 Human Relations 1 145/2 Gate Sections are governed either by impartial rules or by ‘gate keepers’. In the latter case an individual or group is ‘in power’ for making the decision between ‘in’ or ‘out’. 1960 W. Schramm Mass Communications (ed. 2) 176 All along the chain are a series of gatekeepers, who have the right to open or close the gate to any message that comes along... The first gatekeeper is the person who sees the news happen... The second gatekeeper is the reporter who talks to this ‘news source’. 1984 N.Y. Times 15 May a1 Congress did not intend to create an elaborate independent counsel machinery..only to establish the Attorney General as the ‘gatekeeper’ of that machinery, able, without the slightest review by anyone, to open the gate or slam it shut as it may suit his purpose. 2002 Independent 28 Feb. i. 1/1 After more than 50 years in which GPs have jealously guarded their position as ‘gatekeepers’ to the NHS. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1572
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