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beastkeeper

beastkeeper noun: one who is in charge of the care and management of animals.

Noun

beastkeeper (plural beastkeepers)

  1. One who is in charge of the care and management of animals.
    • Suddenly the shrill sound of brazen trumpets was heard, and at that signal a grating opposite Cæsar’s podium was opened, and into the arena rushed, amid shouts of beastkeepers, an enormous German aurochs, bearing on his head the naked body of a woman.1906, Charles Maurice Stebbins, A Progressive Course in English for Secondary Schools: Literature, Composition, Rhetoric, Grammar, Boston, Mass.; Chicago, Ill.: Sibley & Company, page 169
    • I have a post as assistant beastkeeper in the royal gardens and, when not bearing the animals’ food in and ordure out, I inquire after Yorida, but to no avail.1965, L[yon] Sprague de Camp, “The Hungry Hercynian”, in L. Sprague de Camp, editor, The Spell of Seven: Stories of Heroic Fantasy, New York, N.Y.: Pyramid Books, published 1969, page 96

Examples of beastkeeper in a sentence

  • Activation of this glyph always alerts a guardian, sometimes summoning a fiend or tanar’ri to the spot instantly, but more often warning spellcasters or beastkeepers to ready their charges.1995, Encyclopedia Magica, volume 3, TSR, Inc., page 1202:
  • “Where there is no beast, there can be no beastkeeper.2005, Mary Jo Putney, MaryJanice Davidson, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Patricia Rice, Susan Grant, Gena Showalter, PC Cast, Alesia Holliday...
  • The beastkeeper is a scion of House Vadalis who seeks to master the magic of nature and tame those beasts whose essence incorporates that magic.2006, Keith Baker, Ari Marmell, C.A. Suleiman, Michelle Lyons, Dragonmarked (Eberron), Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, pages 130–131:
  • I’m her beastkeeper.” “Oh,” said Sarah after a while, because she couldn’t think of anything else.2015, Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper, New York, N.Y.: Square Fish, →ISBN, page 115:

Forms of beastkeeper

pluralbeastkeepers

Origin of beastkeeper

From beast + keeper.

Questions about beastkeeper

What does beastkeeper mean?
Beastkeeper means one who is in charge of the care and management of animals.
How do you use beastkeeper in a sentence?
Activation of this glyph always alerts a guardian, sometimes summoning a fiend or tanar’ri to the spot instantly, but more often warning spellcasters or beastkeepers to ready their charges.
What part of speech is beastkeeper?
Beastkeeper is a noun.
What is the plural of beastkeeper?
The plural of beastkeeper is beastkeepers.

Words near beastkeeper in the dictionary

  1. beasting
  2. beasting on
  3. beastings
  4. beastish
  5. beastishness
  6. beastkeeper
  7. beastkeepers
  8. beastkin
  9. beastkind
  10. beastless
  11. beastlier

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