Usually means: Maintain possession or condition continuously.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word keep:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. keep, keep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keep: Collins English Dictionary
  5. keep: Vocabulary.com
  6. Keep, Keep, keep: Wordnik
  7. keep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Keep, keep: Wiktionary
  9. keep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. keep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. keep: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Keep, keep: Dictionary.com
  13. keep (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. keep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Keep: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. keep: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. keep: Rhymezone
  19. keep, keep (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. keep: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. KEEP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. keep: Free Dictionary
  23. keep: ESL Idiom Page
  24. keep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. keep: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. keep: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. keep: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. Keep: Castle Terms
  4. KEEP: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. keep: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep, keep: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. keep: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
verb:  (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
verb:  (transitive) To hold the status of something.
verb:  To maintain possession of.
verb:  (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
verb:  (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
verb:  (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
verb:  (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to.
verb:  To restrain.
verb:  (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
verb:  To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
verb:  (of living things) To raise; to care for.
verb:  To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
verb:  To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
verb:  To have habitually in stock for sale.
verb:  (intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
verb:  (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
verb:  To continue.
verb:  To remain edible or otherwise usable.
verb:  (copulative) To remain in a state.
verb:  (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
verb:  (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
verb:  (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
verb:  (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
verb:  (transitive, Singapore) To put away, to put (something) back.
noun:  (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
noun:  The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
noun:  The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
noun:  (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
noun:  (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
noun:  (euphemistic, obsolete) A mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations).
noun:  A surname.

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