- (especially in compounds) a person whose job is to take care of a building, its contents or something valuable
- the keeper of geology at the museum
- a person whose job is to take care of animals, especially in a zoo see also gamekeeper, zookeeper
- (British English, informal) goalkeeper (= in football (soccer), hockey, etc., a player whose job is to stop the ball from going into his or her own team’s goal)Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
- (British English, informal) wicketkeeper (= in cricket, a player who stands behind the wicket in order to stop or catch the ball)
- (informal) a thing or person that is worth keeping
Word OriginMiddle English: from keep + -er.
Idioms
See keeper in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfinders keepers
- (saying) (often used by children) anyone who finds something has a right to keep it
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