Word: keeping
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: kee
ping
Definition: Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
Morphemes:
Affix: keep
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: kepen
Language: enm
Decoded: kepen
Meaning: to keep, guard, look after, watch
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.