Dictionary Entry
keeping
keeping is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Keep. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Keep
- 2noun
A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
- 3noun
Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
- 4noun
Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
- 5noun
Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
- 6noun
the act of retaining something
- 7noun
the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
"he left his car in my keeping"
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- 8noun
conformity or harmony
"his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion"
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