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keeps house

keeps house is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keep house.

Meaning of keep house

Verb

keep house (third-person singular simple present keeps house, present participle keeping house, simple past and past participle kept house)

  1. (idiomatic) To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper.
    • So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC
  2. To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.
    Synonyms:
    knead

Questions about keeps house

What is keeps house the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Keeps house is the third-person singular simple present indicative of keep house.

Words near keeps house in the dictionary

  1. keeps down
  2. keeps faith
  3. keeps from
  4. keeps going
  5. keeps good time
  6. keeps house
  7. keeps in
  8. keeps in mind
  9. keeps in with
  10. keeps it 100
  11. keeps it a bean

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