Usually means: Custodian or guardian of something.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. keeper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. keeper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keeper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keeper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. keeper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Keeper, keeper: Wordnik
  7. keeper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Keeper, keeper: Wiktionary
  9. keeper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. keeper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. keeper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. keeper: Dictionary.com
  13. keeper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Keeper (Appelt novel), Keeper (Peet novel), Keeper (disambiguation), Keeper (film), Keeper (museum), Keeper (password manager), Keeper, The Keeper (Dekker novel), The Keeper (disambiguation), The Keeper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Keeper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. keeper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. keeper: Rhymezone
  18. keeper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. keeper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. keeper: Free Dictionary
  21. keeper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. keeper: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. keeper: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeper: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. keeper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keeper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. keeper: Idioms
  2. keeper: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. keeper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Keeper: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Keeper: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Keeper: Construction Glossary
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See keepers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who keeps (retains) something.
noun:  One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
noun:  A fruit or vegetable that keeps (remains good) for some time without spoiling.
noun:  (informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
noun:  A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
noun:  (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper. In quidditch (both Muggle quidditch and the game in the original Harry Potter series), this is someone responsible for guarding the three goalposts.
noun:  At Eton College, a student who is the captain of a sport or an activity such as drama.
noun:  A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
noun:  A thin, flexible tress or tongue of material (e.g. leather) at the end of a crop opposite the handle, which is broad enough to prevent the horse's skin from being marked as it might be by a whip.
noun:  (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
noun:  Synonym of armature (“piece of metal connecting the poles of a magnet to preserve its strength by forming a circuit”)
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation for the keeper of a castle.

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