Definitions for keeper

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keeper keep·er

Spelling: [kee-per]

IPA: /ˈki pər/

Keeper is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in keeper (eeekpr).

Definitions for keeper

noun

1. a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
2. a person who assumes responsibility for another's behavior:
3. a person who owns or operates a business (usually used in combination):
4. a person who is responsible for the maintenance of something (often used in combination):
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:
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.
11. guard ring.
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 of keeper

First recorded in 1250-1300, keeper is from the Middle English word keper. See keep, -er¹

Examples for keeper

Now, the goalkeeper is out with a memoir about his life until that point: The keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them.

But my brother is quite too often a keeper of mine—of mine own choice authors.

The keeper of the rendezvous received us gladly, and we shipped immediately.

Woe to him who is not the keeper of his own conscience—the supporter of his own resolution!

The International Olympic Committee is the keeper of the Olympic flame, and has immense power over national Olympic committees.

In a lot of ways, that's what My Brother's keeper is all about, and why it's so important.

Just inside the gate he found the little room where the keeper had stayed.

“The state has been trying to lay its hands on them for years,” one keeper of a 700 book-strong library told the paper.

Some black women, in the face of My Brother's keeper, felt left out.

I know very well that I'm my brother's keeper, but I can't tell where he is.'