keeper
/ˈkiː.pɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
noun
The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket; a goalkeeper or wicketkeeper.
Example Sentences
- "Finders keepers; losers weepers."
- "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[…]"
- "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."
- ""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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: kepere
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkiː.pɚ/
- British English: /ˈkiː.pə/