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Partner worth marrying
Answer for the clue "Partner worth marrying ", 6 letters:
keeper
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who keeps something. 2 (context slang English) A person or thing worth keeping. 3 A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES lock keeper park keeper wicket keeper COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN lock ▪ This would seem to cover the action of the lock keepers in this case. ▪ John Cryer, the lock keeper , and Tom Mercer, the engine driver, are ...
Usage examples of keeper.
He carried out his self-imposed task as keeper of the flag-locker in a naturally elegant manner that was deeply incongruous aboard a privateer, a ship designed solely for war.
Scrubbing their hands in a basin of vinegar provided by the keeper of the place, they rejoined Alec outside.
Rannirl had said that Keepers like Elorie were an anachronism in this day and age.
He was very proud of his falcons, and seeing them, talons gripped around wooden perches spiked into the sand or around the leather-gauntleted arms of their keepers, I found myself glancing at Whitaker, noticing the same quick, predatory look, the same sharp, beaky features.
Evidently, a bedel, or possibly one of the Keepers of the Faith, had already completed the praise.
Obviously, some great power, un-known on all Caledonia, was involved, and these from Beyond controlled powers unbeknown to the holiest bedel or Keeper of the Faith.
Keepers of the Faith and the clann bedel and will inform you of our decision later.
Until this very moment, John had never really believed in such, in spite of the Holy Books and the preachings of the bedels and the Keepers of the Faith.
Such as your Keepers of the Faith, or bedels, or whatever you call them.
So it was that the Keepers of the Faith and the bedels gathered, and it was revealed to them by the Holy that there must be banns to control the relationship between the phyla.
I did not know what to say, and began to stammer out something, but at last succeeded in saying that she was a treasure of whom I was not worthy to be the keeper.
Litter First Lady and Keeper of the Home Hearth of Krevanel, critically regarded her reflection in the long mirror, whose ornate and begemmed frame rather overshadowed its smooth surface.
English Beaters were at the other end of the field, hitting the other Bludger back and forth to each other while attempting to keep possession of it, so that they could try to hit any Chaser who attempted to score on their Keeper again.
In the end she promised a great reward to my keeper for the custody of me one night, who for gaine of a little money accorded to her desire, and when I had supped in a Parler with my Master, we departed away and went into our Chamber, where we found the faire Matron, who had tarried a great space for our comming : I am not able to recite unto you how all things were prepared : there were foure Eunuches that lay on a bed of downe on the ground with Boulsters accordingly for us to lye on, the Coverlet was of cloth of Gold, and the pillowes soft and tender, whereon the delicate Matron had accustomed to lay her head.
Welt and Bryk were the respective leaders of the Keepers and the Strivers, for the time being allies against the Deemers.