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| Main Entry: | keeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody |
| Synonyms: | care, charge, guardianship, observance, preservation, protection, safekeeping |
| Main Entry: | keeping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistency |
| Synonyms: | agreement, balance, conformity, harmony, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | keep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold, maintain |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, amass, cache, carry, conduct, conserve, control, deposit, detain, direct, enjoy, garner, grasp, grip, have, heap, hold back, manage, own, pile, place, possess, preserve, put, put up, reserve, retain, save, season, stack, stock, store, withhold, care for, deal in, trade in |
| Antonyms: | consume, disperse, give, hand over, release, give up, let go |
| Main Entry: | keep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend; provide for |
| Synonyms: | administer, attend, board, carry on, command, conduct, continue, defend, direct, endure, feed, foster, guard, maintain, manage, mind, nourish, nurture, operate, ordain, protect, provision, run, safeguard, shelter, shield, subsidize, support, sustain, care for, look after, minister to, victual, watch over |
| Antonyms: | abandon, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | keep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent |
| Synonyms: | arrest, avert, block, check, constrain, control, curb, delay, detain, deter, hamper, hamstring, hinder, hold back, impede, inhibit, limit, obstruct, restrain, retard, shackle, stall, stop, withhold |
| Antonyms: | let go, let happen |
| Main Entry: | keep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commemorate; pay attention to |
| Synonyms: | bless, celebrate, consecrate, fulfill, hold, honor, laud, obey, observe, perform, praise, regard, respect, sanctify, solemnize, adhere to, comply with, ritualize |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, ignore |
| Main Entry: | celebration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout*, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jubilation, keeping, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, spree, triumph, honoring, jollification, joviality, jubilee, magnification, memorialization, solemnization, wingding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | clutches |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal power |
| Synonyms: | control, custody, grasp, grip, keeping, possession, sway, claws, hands |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, control, custody, economy, governing, guardianship, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, protection, safekeeping, salvation, saving, storage, supervision, upkeep, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, directing, guarding, preserval, preserving, protecting, safeguarding, stewardship, supervising, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, waste, spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, bacon*, bread, bread and butter, care, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, provision, resources, salt*, subsistence, supply, upkeep, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, carrying, prolongation, repairs, retainment, sustaining, sustainment, sustention |
| Antonyms: | desertion, ignorance, neglect, forsaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
| Synonyms: | canning, care, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, refrigeration, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, ward, conservancy, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, safeguarding, sustentation, tanning, upholding |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
| Synonyms: | conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, conservancy, extrication, preserval, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste, endangerment |
| Main Entry: | canning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preserving |
| Synonyms: | keeping, bottling, conserving, putting up, storing, tinning |
| Main Entry: | retaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maintaining |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, confining, engaging, keeping, remembering, restraining, saving, securing, withholding, working, arresting, cherishing, commemorating, embracing, employing, having, hiring, holding, holding back, owning, possessing, preserving, reserving, seizing, suppressing, sustaining, taking, treasuring |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment; restriction |
| Synonyms: | check, coercion, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, detention, incarceration, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, bonds, bounding, bounds, circumscription, constrainment, delimitation, immuration, internment, trammels |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, ward, watch, custodianship, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, wardship |
| Main Entry: | observance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention to, knowledge of something |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, acquittal, adherence, awareness, celebration, cognizance, compliance, discharge, fidelity, fulfillment, heed, keeping, mark, mind, note, notice, obedience, observation, performance, regard, remark, satisfaction, acquittance, carrying out, heeding, honoring |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, thoughtlessness, heedlessness |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, jailing |
| Synonyms: | arrest, detention, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, keeping |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation, liberty |
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, adaptation, adequacy, aptitude, assimilation, compatibility, competence, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, harmony, keeping, order, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, suitability, timeliness, accordance, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptness, auspiciousness, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, expediency, patness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | grip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perception, understanding |
| Synonyms: | clutches*, comprehension, control, domination, grasp, hold, influence, keeping, ken, possession, power, tenure |
| Antonyms: | misconception, misunderstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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