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Word Meanings - UNDERKEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate keeper or guardian. Gray.

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  • 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.

 

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