keeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English kepere. By surface analysis, keep + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: keepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who keeps (retains) something.
pos: noun
examples: Finders keepers; losers weepers.
gloss: One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
pos: noun
examples: discreet; chaste; keepers at home
I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives[…]
gloss: A fruit or vegetable that keeps (remains good) for some time without spoiling.
pos: noun
examples: Roxbury Russet: Market and keeper.
And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.
gloss: A person or thing worth keeping.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.
When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.
We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.
gloss: A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
pos: noun
examples: And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
gloss: The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket; a goalkeeper or wicketkeeper.
pos: noun
examples: England should have capitalised on their growing momentum to win, but Darren Bent failed to reproduce the finishing touches that have brought him goals in three successive appearances. He was blocked by Diego Benaglio when he was played in by Wilshere then blazed over the top of an open goal late on after Young's shot was saved by Switzerland's keeper.
gloss: At Eton College, a student who is the captain of a sport or an activity such as drama.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The all-whalebone crop, braided with gut, pigskin handle, single brown stitched leather keeper, and close[…]
“When we catch you—” A brief but vivid fantasy of the nose-ringed girl trailing a riding crop's cool leather keeper over her clenched and trembling ass shoved its way eagerly into Fran's imagination. “—we're gonna[…]”
gloss: An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of armature (“piece of metal connecting the poles of a magnet to preserve its strength by forming a circuit”).
pos: noun
examples: The continuous lines indicate the moments, when the magnet and keeper of equal diameter (10.5mm) act upon each other […]
Derived words: account-keeper
alehouse keeper
alekeeper
barkeeper
bar-keeper
bathkeeper
beachkeeper
beastkeeper
beekeeper
birdkeeper
boatkeeper
book-keeper
bookkeeper
boxkeeper
bridgekeeper
brothel-keeper
brothelkeeper
bus-keeper
butter keeper
casekeeper
closet-keeper
cowkeeper
crossing keeper
crowkeeper
deer-keeper
divekeeper
doorkeeper
door-keeper
dramshopkeeper
dungeon-keeper
firekeeper
fishkeeper
flamekeeper
forestkeeper
gamekeeper
game keeper
gaolkeeper
gatekeeper
goal keeper
goalkeeper
goatkeeper
gravekeeper
green keeper
greenkeeper
greenskeeper
groundkeeper
groundskeeper
hangarkeeper
harem-keeper
homekeeper
hookkeeper
horsekeeper
hotelkeeper
housekeeper
house keeper
hutkeeper
innkeeper
jailkeeper
keeperess
keeperless
keeper of the flame
keepership
keykeeper
lampkeeper
lettuce keeper
lighthousekeeper
lighthouse keeper
lightkeeper
lionkeeper
lockkeeper
lodgekeeper
menagerie keeper
netkeeper
nit-keeper
parkkeeper
park-keeper
peacekeeper
penkeeper
petkeeper
poundkeeper
pubkeeper
rangekeeper
record keeper
ring-keeper
ringkeeper
riverkeeper
roomkeeper
Sabbath-keeper
salad keeper
saloonkeeper
schoolkeeper
scorekeeper
seal keeper
shanty-keeper
shopkeeper
shop keeper
stablekeeper
stallkeeper
steeple keeper
stockkeeper
storekeeper
sweeper-keeper
switch keeper
tally-keeper
tavernkeeper
time-keeper
timekeeper
tollkeeper
underkeeper
watchkeeper
waterkeeper
wicket-keeper
wicketkeeper
wicket keeper
zookeeper
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պահապան
roman: pahapan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qoruqçu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nəzarətçi
lang: Bulgarian
word: пазач
roman: pazač
lang: Dutch
word: bewaarder
lang: Dutch
word: bewaarster
lang: French
word: gardien
lang: French
word: gardienne
lang: Georgian
word: მცველი
roman: mcveli
lang: Georgian
word: დარაჯი
roman: daraǯi
lang: Georgian
word: შემნახველი
roman: šemnaxveli
lang: German
word: Hüter
lang: Kyrgyz
word: сактоочу
roman: saktoocu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: күзөтчү
roman: küzötcü
lang: Persian
word: نگهبان
roman: negahbān
lang: Persian
word: پاسبان
roman: pāsbān
lang: Russian
word: храни́тель
roman: xranítelʹ
lang: Russian
word: храни́тельница
roman: xranítelʹnica
lang: Spanish
word: guardián
lang: Spanish
word: guardiana
lang: Telugu
word: కాపరి
roman: kāpari
lang: Uzbek
word: qoʻriqchi
lang: Zazaki
word: weynayoğ
lang: Zazaki
word: starwan