reverend vs doorkeeper

doorkeeper vs reverend

reverend and doorkeeper both are nouns.

reverend is an adjective but doorkeeper is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
reverend	Yes	Yes	No	No
doorkeeper	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, doorkeeper is a hyponym of reverend; that is, doorkeeper is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than reverend:

reverend: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
doorkeeper: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

Other hyponyms of reverend include acolyte, anagnost, archdeacon, chaplain, churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic, curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector, deacon, domine, dominee, dominie, dominus, ostiarius, ostiary, lector, reader, officiant, ordinand, ordinary, postulator, preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer, priest, shepherd, subdeacon, vicar, vicar.

reverend (noun)	doorkeeper (noun)
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church	someone who guards an entrance
	an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
	the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

reverend (adjective)	doorkeeper (adjective)
worthy of adoration or reverence

Difference between reverend and doorkeeper

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