See keep score in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "keeps score",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "keeping score",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "kept score",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kept score",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,kept>"
},
"expansion": "keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Games",
"orig": "en:Games",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sports",
"orig": "en:Sports",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "37 31 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of the score in a game."
],
"id": "en-keep_score-en-verb-3wHf1FKL",
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"games",
"game#Noun"
],
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"score",
"score"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game."
],
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "even the score"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "pay off old scores"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "scoreboard"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "scorebook"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "scorecard"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "scorekeeper"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "scorekeeping"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 23 23",
"word": "settle the score"
}
],
"topics": [
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "37 31 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
90,
103
]
],
"ref": "1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5:",
"text": "Too many of us are attempting to \"prove\" our manhood by the tired heterosexual method of \"keeping score\".",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts."
],
"id": "en-keep_score-en-verb-9jVGr47k",
"links": [
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
],
[
"number",
"number"
],
[
"detail",
"detail"
],
[
"context",
"context"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "37 31 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 33 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
85
]
],
"ref": "1974, Ashford & Simpson, “Over To Where You Are”, in I Wanna Be Selfish:",
"text": "What I've learned I'm not really sure / Oh so many times / I've stopped keeping score / Traces and faces and people I meet / Seem to be a circle that just repeats",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
116
]
],
"ref": "1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet):",
"text": "i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never \"kept score\". not ever.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
205,
215
]
],
"ref": "2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta (Usenet):",
"text": "I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it \"degenerated\" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.",
"To monitor and assess the actions and conduct of others, including potential infringements, conflicting objectives, or notable interactions, across interpersonal, political, and broader social domains, encompassing both offline and digital environments."
],
"id": "en-keep_score-en-verb-AVKIhSN4",
"links": [
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
],
[
"number",
"number"
],
[
"detail",
"detail"
],
[
"context",
"context"
],
[
"monitor",
"monitor"
],
[
"assess",
"assess"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"conduct",
"conduct"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"infringement",
"infringement"
],
[
"conflicting",
"conflicting"
],
[
"objective",
"objective"
],
[
"notable",
"notable"
],
[
"interaction",
"interaction"
],
[
"interpersonal",
"interpersonal"
],
[
"political",
"political"
],
[
"broader",
"broader"
],
[
"social",
"social"
],
[
"domain",
"domain"
],
[
"encompassing",
"encompassing"
],
[
"offline",
"offline"
],
[
"digital",
"digital"
],
[
"environment",
"environment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.",
"(figuratively) To monitor and assess the actions and conduct of others, including potential infringements, conflicting objectives, or notable interactions, across interpersonal, political, and broader social domains, encompassing both offline and digital environments."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "keep score"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "keeps score",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "keeping score",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "kept score",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kept score",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,kept>"
},
"expansion": "keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "even the score"
},
{
"word": "pay off old scores"
},
{
"word": "scoreboard"
},
{
"word": "scorebook"
},
{
"word": "scorecard"
},
{
"word": "scorekeeper"
},
{
"word": "scorekeeping"
},
{
"word": "settle the score"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Games",
"en:Sports"
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of the score in a game."
],
"links": [
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"games",
"game#Noun"
],
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"score",
"score"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game."
],
"topics": [
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
90,
103
]
],
"ref": "1977 April 30, Steven Blevins, “Sexism in the Bars, Baths, and Bushes”, in Gay Community News, page 5:",
"text": "Too many of us are attempting to \"prove\" our manhood by the tired heterosexual method of \"keeping score\".",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts."
],
"links": [
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
],
[
"number",
"number"
],
[
"detail",
"detail"
],
[
"context",
"context"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
72,
85
]
],
"ref": "1974, Ashford & Simpson, “Over To Where You Are”, in I Wanna Be Selfish:",
"text": "What I've learned I'm not really sure / Oh so many times / I've stopped keeping score / Traces and faces and people I meet / Seem to be a circle that just repeats",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
116
]
],
"ref": "1998 August 19, rena, “what's the deal??”, in alt.support.depression.flame (Usenet):",
"text": "i never, EVER entered into a friendship with the idea that i was *owed* anything by that person. i never \"kept score\". not ever.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
205,
215
]
],
"ref": "2000 August 12, meg...@abacom.com, “Inner Voice”, in sci.philosophy.meta (Usenet):",
"text": "I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it \"degenerated\" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.",
"To monitor and assess the actions and conduct of others, including potential infringements, conflicting objectives, or notable interactions, across interpersonal, political, and broader social domains, encompassing both offline and digital environments."
],
"links": [
[
"keep track",
"keep track"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
],
[
"number",
"number"
],
[
"detail",
"detail"
],
[
"context",
"context"
],
[
"monitor",
"monitor"
],
[
"assess",
"assess"
],
[
"action",
"action"
],
[
"conduct",
"conduct"
],
[
"potential",
"potential"
],
[
"infringement",
"infringement"
],
[
"conflicting",
"conflicting"
],
[
"objective",
"objective"
],
[
"notable",
"notable"
],
[
"interaction",
"interaction"
],
[
"interpersonal",
"interpersonal"
],
[
"political",
"political"
],
[
"broader",
"broader"
],
[
"social",
"social"
],
[
"domain",
"domain"
],
[
"encompassing",
"encompassing"
],
[
"offline",
"offline"
],
[
"digital",
"digital"
],
[
"environment",
"environment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.",
"(figuratively) To monitor and assess the actions and conduct of others, including potential infringements, conflicting objectives, or notable interactions, across interpersonal, political, and broader social domains, encompassing both offline and digital environments."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "keep score"
}
Download raw JSONL data for keep score meaning in English (4.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). 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.