Definition of Keep on

1. Verb. Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature. "This garment retains its shape even after many washings"

Exact synonyms: Continue, Keep, Retain
Generic synonyms: Keep Up, Prolong, Sustain
Related verbs: Continue, Persist In
Derivative terms: Continuation

Definition of Keep on

1. Verb. (idiomatic) persist or continue ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To remain in an existing position. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep On

keep from
keep going
keep guard
keep hope alive
keep house
keep in
keep in line
keep in mind
keep it between the ditches
keep it on the barber pole
keep it real
keep it up
keep mum
keep note
keep off
keep on
keep on truckin'
keep on trucking
keep one's cards close to one's chest
keep one's cool
keep one's counsel
keep one's distance
keep one's eye in
keep one's eye on the ball
keep one's eyes off
keep one's eyes open
keep one's eyes peeled
keep one's eyes skinned
keep one's fingers crossed
keep one's hair on

Literary usage of Keep on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It was passive rather than active, the duty to keep on her course. If, therefore, the schooner did not change her course, so as *to embarrass the steamer ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Uniat Churches as the harvest gathered from this episode during the years that followed. groups of the Greek-Slav Rite keep on establishing themselves, ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... and that the latter will constantly keep on hand and sell such patterns, and none other, and will make monthly payments of accrued indebtedness, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1885)
"... and does not apply to two ships whieh must, if both keep on their ... do not apply to two ships whieh must, if both keep on their ..."

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