Gatekeeper vs. Watchman

Gatekeepernoun

A person or group who controls access to something or somebody

Gatekeepernoun

A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate

Gatekeepernoun

A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.

Gatekeepernoun

someone who controls access to something;

Gatekeepernoun

someone who guards an entrance

Gatekeeper

A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status. Gatekeepers assess who is in the classic words of management scholar Kurt Lewin.Various figures in the religions and mythologies of the world serve as gatekeepers of paradisal or infernal realms, granting or denying access to these realms, depending on the credentials of those seeking entry.

Watchmannoun

One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Watchmannoun

One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.

Watchmannoun

Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.

Watchmannoun

a guard who keeps watch