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== English == === Alternative forms === keepe (obsolete) === Pronunciation === enPR: kēp, IPA(key): /kiːp/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [kiːp], [kʰɪjp] (Standard Southern British, Southern US) IPA(key): [kʰɪjp] (US) IPA(key): [k̟çi(ː)p] (Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): [k(ʰ)i(ː)p] Rhymes: -iːp === Etymology 1 === From Middle English kepen (“to keep, guard, look after, watch”), from Old English cēpan (“to seize, hold, observe”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōpijaną (“to look, heed, watch, observe”) (compare West Frisian kypje (“to look”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵab-, *ǵāb- (“to look after”) (compare Lithuanian žẽbti (“to eat reluctantly”), Russian забо́та (zabóta, “care, worry”)). The dialectal sense of the verb meaning “to put back” or “put away” may be analyzed as a semantic loan from a local language—compare Welsh cadw and Mandarin 收 (shōu). ==== Verb ==== keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept) (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word. Synonyms: fullfill, hold, honor (transitive) To hold the status of something. To maintain possession of. (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book. (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to. To restrain. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect. To supply with necessities and financially support (a person). (of living things) To raise; to care for. To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret). To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage. To have habitually in stock for sale. (intransitive) To hold or be held in a state. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. To continue. To remain edible or otherwise usable. (copulative) To remain in a state. (UK, obsolete) To have rooms at college, at the University of Cambridge. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent. (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday). (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Synonyms ===== (maintain possession of): retain (maintain the condition of): preserve, protect (to reside for a time): See also Thesaurus:sojourn ===== Troponyms ===== (rest in a state of reduced consciousness): nap, doze, snooze ===== Derived terms ===== English terms starting with “keep” ===== Related terms ===== for keeps ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English kepe, kep, from the verb (see above). ==== Noun ==== keep (countable and uncountable, plural keeps) (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. Synonym: donjon The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge. (euphemistic, obsolete) A mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== donjon === Anagrams === Ekpe, PEEK, Peek, Peke, kepe, peek, peke == Chinese == === Etymology === From English keep. === Pronunciation === === Verb === keep (Hong Kong Cantonese) to keep; to maintain possession of to keep; to maintain condition of; to preserve (sports) to mark or guard a player from the opposing team ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== keeper === References === English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese == Dutch == === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch *kēp, *kip, from Old Dutch *kip (compare Old Dutch kip (“fetter”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp- (“to cut, split”), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split, divide, geminate, sprout”). Cognate with Middle Low German kēp ("notch, incision"; > German Low German Keep (“score, notch, nick”)), Old English ċipp (“shaving, chip”). ==== Alternative forms ==== kip ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /keːp/ Hyphenation: keep Rhymes: -eːp Homophone: cape ==== Noun ==== keep f (plural kepen, diminutive keepje n) notch, carven mark Synonyms: inkeping, kerf ===== Descendants ===== Afrikaans: keep === Etymology 2 === Unknown, but possibly related to German Kepf (“bird of prey”). West Frisian keepfink (“bramblefinch”) is likely an adapted borrowing of the Dutch. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /keːp/ Hyphenation: keep Rhymes: -eːp Homophone: cape ==== Noun ==== keep m (plural kepen, diminutive keepje n) the brambling, Fringilla montifringilla ==== Further reading ==== keep (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl === Etymology 3 === Clipping of keeper. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /kip/ Hyphenation: keep Rhymes: -ip Homophone: kiep ==== Noun ==== keep m (plural keeps, no diminutive) (ball games, chiefly soccer, colloquial) synonym of keeper == Estonian == === Etymology === From German Cape. === Noun === keep (genitive keebi, partitive keepi) cloak, capote, gaberdine ==== Declension ==== == Middle English == === Alternative forms === kep, kepe, koep === Etymology === From the verb kepen (“to keep, to care about”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /keːp/ === Noun === keep (uncountable) heed, notice, note, observance taken keep ― to take note c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r: care, concern service, attendance, care obedience, deference caution, precaution, vigilance ==== Descendants ==== English: keep ==== References ==== “kẹ̄p, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 November 2023. == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English kepen, from Old English cēpan, from Proto-West Germanic *kōpijaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kiːp/ === Verb === keep to keep === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108 == Yucatec Maya == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /keːp˩/ === Noun === keep (plural keepoʼob) (anatomy) penis ==== Synonyms ==== toon