1) one who sweeps and cleans a temple
2) one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan
3) the worshipper of a deity
3a) word appears from coins still extant, it was an honourary title [temple-keeper or temple-warden] of certain cities, especially in Asia Minor, or in which some special worship of some deity or even some deified human ruler had been established; used of Ephesus
Part of Speech: noun masculine
G3511
From a form of G3485 and κορέω koreô (to sweep); a temple servant, that is, (by implication) a votary: - worshipper.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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