ticket taker vs ostiary

ticket taker and ostiary both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ticket taker	Yes	No	No	No
ostiary	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ostiary is a hypernym of ticket taker; that is, ostiary is a word with a broader meaning than ticket taker:

ticket taker: someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets
ostiary: someone who guards an entrance

Other hypernyms of ticket taker include door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, porter.

ticket taker (noun)	ostiary (noun)
someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets	someone who guards an entrance
	the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church