Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 neat, tidy. 2 (of a secret) not told to anyone. alt. 1 neat, tidy. 2 (of a secret) not told to anyone.
WordNet
adj. kept in good condition [syn: kept up(p), maintained]
of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape, trim]
Usage examples of "well-kept".
Uncle stood near, looking now at the fresh faces of the children, now at his well-kept goats, with a smile on his face, evidently well pleased with the sight of both.
Here we saw vineyards and corn-fields and well-kept park-like grounds, with such timber in them as filled me with delight, for I do love a good tree.
Other villages and farms, while just as well-kept and well-to-do, have, so to say, a something romantic about their prosperity, a bounteous, ruddy, golden-age look about them, as though Nature herself had been the farmer and they had ruddied and ripened out of her own unconscious abundance--the difference between a row of modern box beehives and the old thatched-cottage kind.
The postilions, stimulated by a promise of a princely DOUCEUR, drove rapidly along over a well-kept road.
This was a genuine country home -- warm and well-kept -- that eschewed the ducks and hearts and other tacky trappings of country life that suburbanites buy at craft fairs in the malls.
A well-kept covered trap, with polished brasswork, was pulling into the yard.
They clattered through well-kept streets on wide cobblestones, passing shops, inns, countinghouses, temples, vendors’ booths and homes.
The well-kept, beaten earth roadway was massed with disciplined streams of travellers to and from Yedo that one day would be called Tokyo.
They crossed the dry course of the Segoditshane River and then the older apprentice directed her to a side road lined by a row of small, well-kept houses.
Behind the fence was an extensive, well-kept green lawn, and a huge, ferocious German shepherd dog.
The house was a well-kept but unpretentious place with the type of furnishings that are bought on the hire-purchase system, and Gregory judged that Elvdalen was probably a minor official of some kind—perhaps to do with the fisheries or the forests—as the only thing which made the living-room into which their host conducted them at all out of the ordinary was that on one wall there was a number of large-scale maps of the district, which had evidently not been pinned up recently for they were yellow from exposure.
He looked around the room, from formidable face to formidable face, making eye contact with each in turn, giving them the impression that he was speaking intimately to each one alone, imparting a well-kept secret.
We walked along the well-kept path that ran along the base of the cliffs in which the pygmies had their lairs.
Underlighting should have flattered the well-kept prettiness of the serfs face, but somehow brought out the High Asian cast of the strong bones.
He nibbled her earlobe, her well-kept hair smelled she-male as hell, then assured her, "I cannot tell a lie.