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game-keeper

game-keeper is the alternative form of gamekeeper.

Meaning of gamekeeper

Noun

gamekeeper (plural gamekeepers)

  1. A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects.
    • The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or...1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 208

Forms of game-keeper

pluralgame-keepers

Questions about game-keeper

What is game-keeper the alternative form of?
Game-keeper is the alternative form of gamekeeper.

Words near game-keeper in the dictionary

  1. game-filled
  2. game-goer
  3. game-goers
  4. game-head
  5. game-heads
  6. game-keeper
  7. game-keepers
  8. game-making
  9. game-master
  10. game-masters
  11. game-mistress

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