Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keep out

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.58 in modern English

Syllables: keep- out
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To refrain from entering a place or condition.

Intransitive verb

verb

To restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition.

Transitive verb

verb

Example Sentences

"After being warned, he kept out."
"The warning kept him out."
"Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”."
"Put me in Chanels, kept me out nice"

Usage

Inflected Forms

keeps out (present, singular) keeping out (participle, present) kept out (participle, past) kept out (past)

Phrases

no admittance no trespassing stay away

Frequently Paired Words

no admittance no trespassing stay away

Synonyms

exclude shut out shut

Antonyms

let in lock in

Questions

What does keep out mean?: To refrain from entering a place or condition.

How to pronounce keep out

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