Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Keep"

  1. your
  2. this
  3. eyes
  4. track
  5. cool
  6. moving
  7. going
  8. eye
  9. records
  10. hands

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. own
  2. old
  3. great
  4. worth
  5. central
  6. scarce
  7. massive
  8. good
  9. ancient
  10. inner

Categorically Similar

  1. afloat
  2. alive
  3. pace
  4. quiet
  5. secret
  6. safe
  7. intact
  8. warm
  9. clean
  10. busy

What Google Knows

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary.

Related Definition

  1. keep:

    v To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

    v To remain faithful to a given promise or word.

    v (transitive) To hold the status of something.

    v To maintain possession of.

    v (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.

    v (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.

    v (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.

    v (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to.

    v To restrain.

    v (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.

    v To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).

    v (of living things) To raise; to care for.

    v To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).

    v To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.

    v To have habitually in stock for sale.

    v (intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.

    v (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.

    v To continue.

    v To remain edible or otherwise usable.

    v (copulative) To remain in a state.

    v (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.

    v (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.

    v (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.

    v (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.

    v (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.

    v (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.

    v (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).

    n (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.

    n The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.

    n (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.

    n The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

    n (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.

    n (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

    n A surname.


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