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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who controls access to something; "there are too many gatekeepers between the field officers and the chief"
2: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1572 1. one that tends or guards a gate 2. a person who controls access • gatekeeping noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an attendant at a gate, controlling entrance and exit. 2 any of several large brown species of butterfly, esp. Maniola tithonus, frequenting hedgerows and woodland.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gatekeepers) A gatekeeper is a person who is in charge of a gate and who allows people through it. N-COUNT