keeper
Meanings
noun
- One who keeps (retains) something.
- One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
- A fruit or vegetable that keeps (remains good) for some time without spoiling.
- A person or thing worth keeping.
- A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
- The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket; a goalkeeper or wicketkeeper.
- At Eton College, a student who is the captain of a sport or an activity such as drama.
- A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
- A thin, flexible tress or tongue of material (e.g. leather) at the end of a crop opposite the handle, which is broad enough to prevent the horse's skin from being marked as it might be by a whip.
- An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
- Synonym of armature (“piece of metal connecting the poles of a magnet to preserve its strength by forming a circuit”).
name
- An English surname originating as an occupation for the keeper of a castle.
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Etymology
From Middle English kepere. By surface analysis, keep + -er.
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