WELL-KEPT


Meaning of WELL-KEPT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a closely guarded/well-kept secret (= a secret that few people are allowed to know )

The recipe is a closely guarded secret.

well-kept/tidy British English ( also neat American English )

The hotel is set in a well-kept garden.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

garden

The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.

I loved the orderliness of their little bungalow, and their well-kept garden .

There were greenhouses and well-kept gardens .

There is a wonderfully positioned swimming pool with relaxing sunloungers, surrounded by well-kept gardens and a lovely loggia.

secret

The whereabouts of the horse hormone farms and the numbers of animals involved are extraordinarily well-kept secrets .

Her well-kept secret finally was revealed Tuesday.

Precisely what was said between them to prompt the scuffle remains a fairly well-kept secret , but conditions certainly were incendiary enough.

It was one of the less well-kept secrets in the paddock.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Our old house, now covered with ivy, still looked pretty and well-kept .

Visitors should tour the palace, but don't forget the well-kept grounds -- well worth a visit.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

From its registration number it was only three years old, and it looked well-kept , the front tyres were new.

Her well-kept secret finally was revealed Tuesday.

I loved the orderliness of their little bungalow, and their well-kept garden.

It was one of those large affairs sometimes known as colonial, with well-kept grounds stretching out in all directions.

Precisely what was said between them to prompt the scuffle remains a fairly well-kept secret, but conditions certainly were incendiary enough.

The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.

The whereabouts of the horse hormone farms and the numbers of animals involved are extraordinarily well-kept secrets.

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