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KEEP HOUSE

Specialty Definition: KEEP HOUSE

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Literature

Keep House (To). To maintain a separate establishment; to act as house-keeper.
To keep open house. To admit all comers to hospitable entertainment. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: KEEP HOUSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Location

Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: KEEP HOUSE

English words defined with "KEEP HOUSE": To keep good. (references)
Etymologies containing "KEEP HOUSE": Diocese. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: KEEP HOUSE

AuthorQuotation

Martin Luther

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: KEEP HOUSE

Expression using "KEEP HOUSE": To keep house. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: KEEP HOUSE

Language Translations for "KEEP HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

merrem me punët shtëpiake. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تدبير المنزل, ‏رتب المنزل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

грижа се за домакинството. (various references)

   

Danish

  

holde hus (manage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

huishouden (manage), besturen (administer, conduct, control, direct, govern, guide, head up, lead, manage, pilot, restrain, rule, steer), beheren (administer, manage). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

mastrumi (manage). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pitää taloutta, emännöidä (act as a hostess, manage the household). (various references)

   

French

  

tenir le ménage, tenir la maison. (various references)

   

German

  

wirtschaften (budget, busy oneself, economize, husbandry, manage, potter about, rummage about), haushalten (be economical, budget, economize, husbandry, manage). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρατώ νοικοκυριό. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל "ל משק (farm). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

háztartást vezet (to keep house). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepkay ousehay

   

Portuguese

  

administrarcasa (manage). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вести домашнее хозяйство. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

održavati kuću. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hushålla (economize). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

eяelik etmek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: KEEP HOUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: housekeep.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-k-o-p-s-u"

-3 letters: ouphes, pekoes.

-4 letters: epees, hokes, hopes, house, keeps, kophs, okehs, ouphe, ouphs, peeks, pekes, pekoe, pokes, pukes, sheep, spoke.

-5 letters: ekes, epee, epos, hoes, hoke, hope, hops, hose, hues, husk, keep, keps, koph, kops, kues, okeh, okes, opes, opus, ouph, peek, pees, pehs, peke, peso, poke, pose, posh, puke, push, seek, seep, shoe.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-k-o-p-s-u"
 

+1 letter: housekeeps.

 

+2 letters: housekeeper.

 

+3 letters: housekeepers, housekeeping.

 

+4 letters: housekeepings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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