Word Meanings - UNDERKEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

Related words: (words related to UNDERKEEPER)

• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• GUARDIANAGE
  Guardianship.
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• GUARDIANCE
  Guardianship.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
• BOOKKEEPER
  One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• HOUSEKEEPER
  1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
• DOORKEEPER
  One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
• BARKEEPER
  One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
• GAMEKEEPER
  One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.