noun 1.a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
2.a person who assumes responsibility for another's behavior: He refused to be his brother's keeper.
3.a person who owns or operates a business (usually used in combination): a hotelkeeper.
4.a person who is responsible for the maintenance of something (often used in combination): a zookeeper; a groundskeeper.
5.a person charged with responsibility for the preservation and conservation of something valuable, as a curator or game warden.
6.a person who conforms to or abides by a requirement:
a keeper of his word. 7.a fish that is of sufficient size to be caught and retained without violating the law.
8.Football. a play in
which the quarterback retains the ball and runs with it, usually after faking a hand-off or pass.
9.something that serves to hold in place, retain, etc., as on a door lock.
10.something that lasts well, as a fruit.
12.an iron or steel bar placed across the poles of a permanent horseshoe magnet for preserving the strength of the magnet during storage.
Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English keper. See
keep,
-er1 Related forms keep·er·less, adjective
keep·er·ship, noun
un·der·keep·er, noun
Synonyms
1. warden, jailer. 2. custodian, guardian.
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Keepership
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