keeps
plural of “keep” — the financial means whereby one lives
An inflected form of keep · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,803 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,912 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the financial means whereby one lives also: support, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance each child was expected to pay for their keephe applied to the state for support
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress also: donjon, dungeon
- a cell in a jail or prison also: hold
keeps in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Agatha keeps for three years a pebble in her mouth.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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And when Unc' Billy makes a friend, he keeps him.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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And as kind time keeps Phillis from thy sight, So let prevention banish fancy quite.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Man keeps from man the stifled moan; They shouldering stand, yet each in heart how lone.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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She is up at five every morning to milk, and keeps at it steadily until lunchtime.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1