KEEPER


Meaning of KEEPER in English

keep ‧ er /ˈkiːpə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

[ Word Family: noun : ↑ keep , ↑ keeper , ↑ keeping ; verb : ↑ keep ; adjective : kept]

1 . someone who looks after animals:

a beekeeper

Bob is head lion keeper at the zoo.

⇨ ↑ gamekeeper , ↑ zoo-keeper

2 . someone whose job is to look after a particular place or thing:

a lighthouse keeper

keeper of

the keeper of Greek coins in the British Museum

3 . British English informal a ↑ goalkeeper

4 . I am not sb’s keeper spoken used to say that you are not responsible for someone else’s actions

⇨ ↑ wicket keeper

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.