Keeper Definition

kēpər
keepers
noun
keepers
A person or thing that keeps.
Webster's New World
Something worth keeping, as a fish large enough for a fisherman to keep legally.
Webster's New World
A play in which the quarterback takes the ball from the center and runs with it.
Webster's New World

A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

Wiktionary

(sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.

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Noun

Singular:
keeper
Plural:
keepers

Origin of Keeper

  • keep +‎ -er

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Keeper Sentence Examples

  • Liz, I think you have a keeper here.

  • Euphorion was made keeper of the library at Antioch.

  • The keeper of ancient Immortal histories, Tamer was able to read scripts from the time-before-time.

  • He is the keeper of heaven's secrets and acts as messenger between gods and men.

  • Eratosthenes, who in the latter half of the and century B.C. was keeper of the famous Alexandrian library, not only made himself a great name by his important work on geography, but by his treatise entitled Chronographia, one of the first attempts to establish an exact scheme of general chronology, earned for himself the title of "father of chronology."

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Words Starting With

KKEKEE

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RERPER

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