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Definition keep

Etymology

From Middle English kepen (“to keep, guard, look after, watch”), from Old English c?pan (“to seize, hold, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *k?pijan? (compare West Frisian kypje (“to look”)), variant of *kapjan? (compare Old English capian (“to look”), Dutch kapen (“to seize, snatch”), Danish kope (“to gawk, stare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ab-, *??b- (“to look after”) (compare Lithuanian ž?bti (“to eat reluctantly”), Russian ??????? (zabóta, “care, worry”)).

Verb

keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept)

  1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  2. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
    1. To maintain possession of.
    2. (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of.
    3. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
    4. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
    5. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to.
    6. To restrain.
    7. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
    8. To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
    9. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
    10. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
    11. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  3. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
    1. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
    2. To continue.
    3. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
    4. (copulative) To remain in a state.
  4. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  5. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  8. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
  9. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.

Noun

keep (countable and uncountable, plural keeps)

  1. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
  2. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
  3. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
  4. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
  5. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
  6. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.


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