KEEPER
\kˈiːpə], \kˈiːpə], \k_ˈiː_p_ə]\
Definitions of KEEPER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
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One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
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One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
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A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
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A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
By Oddity Software
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One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
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One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
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One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
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A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
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A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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He who or that which keeps; one who holds or has possession of anything; one who retains in custody; one who has the care of a park or other inclosure; one who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything. Keeper of the Great Seal, the officer entrusted with the Queen's great seal; the lord chancellor.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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