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flamekeepers

flamekeepers is the plural of flamekeeper.

Meaning of flamekeeper

Noun

flamekeeper (plural flamekeepers)

  1. One who tends a fire that must be kept burning (in various pagan practices).
  2. (figuratively, rare) One who keeps some idea alive.
    • As the genre has shifted and evolved around — and in many ways beyond — them, they have remained committed to a role as flamekeeper of a certain strain of hip-hop authenticity.2009 March 10, Jon Caramanica, “Stepping to the Fore as a Backup Band”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2022

Questions about flamekeepers

What is flamekeepers the plural of?
Flamekeepers is the plural of flamekeeper.

Words near flamekeepers in the dictionary

  1. flameflowers
  2. flameful
  3. flamegraph
  4. flamegraphs
  5. flamekeeper
  6. flamekeepers
  7. Flamel
  8. flameless
  9. flamelessly
  10. flamelessness
  11. flamelet

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