keep apace in English

Forms: keeps apace [present, singular, third-person], keeping apace [participle, present], kept apace [participle, past], kept apace [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,kept>}} keep apace (third-person singular simple present keeps apace, present participle keeping apace, simple past and past participle kept apace)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps apace",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping apace",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept apace",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept apace",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<,,kept>"
      },
      "expansion": "keep apace (third-person singular simple present keeps apace, present participle keeping apace, simple past and past participle kept apace)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "keep pace"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of keep pace."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_apace-en-verb-Nac56084",
      "links": [
        [
          "keep pace",
          "keep pace#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep apace"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps apace",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping apace",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept apace",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept apace",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "<,,kept>"
      },
      "expansion": "keep apace (third-person singular simple present keeps apace, present participle keeping apace, simple past and past participle kept apace)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "keep pace"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of keep pace."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "keep pace",
          "keep pace#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep apace"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"keep apace" meaning in English

Verb