Usually means: Keeper of doors, gate, or entrance.
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  1. ostiary: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostiary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. ostiary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ostiary: Vocabulary.com
  5. ostiary: Wordnik
  6. ostiary: Wiktionary
  7. ostiary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ostiary: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Ostiary, ostiary: Dictionary.com
  10. Ostiary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Ostiary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ostiary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ostiary: Rhymezone
  14. Ostiary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ostiary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. ostiary: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ostiary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. ostiary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ostiary: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ostiary: Encyclopedia

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  1. OSTIARY, OSTIARY, OSTIARY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ostiary)

▸ noun:  (archaic) The mouth of a river; an estuary.
▸ noun:  One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

Similar:
embouchure, lade, over, euripe, ditionary, stomate, indraught, entery, embarkation, receptory, more...

Opposite:
entrance, access, gateway, portal

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Similar:
embouchure, lade, over, euripe, ditionary, stomate, indraught, entery, embarkation, receptory, more...

Opposite:
entrance, access, gateway, portal



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