keeper
IPA: kˈipɝ
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.
- (informal) 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.
- (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
- 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.
- (American football) 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”)
- An English surname originating as an occupation for the keeper of a castle.
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Examples of "keeper" in Sentences
- The keeper lived in the lighthouse.
- The gate keepers smirk at one another.
- Alena is the keeper of the jewel of water.
- The keeper is not the preparer of the document.
- The keeper parried it and it just stopped dead.
- The Orchid keeper then comes and devours the prey.
- The Keeper said that the Denizen was Saturday's Dusk.
- It included the keeper's dwelling in the base of the light.
- Now an errand boy for the Brotherhood of the Chosen Keepers.
- Barral was the keeper of the Prehistoric Anthropology Museum of Monaco.