"keep company" meaning in English

See keep company in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-au-keep company.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps company [present, singular, third-person], keeping company [participle, present], kept company [participle, past], kept company [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> company}} keep company (third-person singular simple present keeps company, present participle keeping company, simple past and past participle kept company)
  1. (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) To court. Tags: dated, euphemistic, idiomatic, intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-keep_company-en-verb-UCn43XrA Categories (other): English euphemisms, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To socialize. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-keep_company-en-verb-rBimeVJZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: keep someone company

Download JSON data for keep company meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps company",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping company",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept company",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept company",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> company"
      },
      "expansion": "keep company (third-person singular simple present keeps company, present participle keeping company, simple past and past participle kept company)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "keep someone company"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It was rumoured that the lady and the gentleman were keeping company."
        },
        {
          "text": "He was keeping company with her."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To court."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_company-en-verb-UCn43XrA",
      "links": [
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) To court."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If you care about your reputation you ought to be careful whom you keep company with."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To socialize."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_company-en-verb-rBimeVJZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "socialize",
          "socialize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To socialize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-keep company.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/En-au-keep_company.ogg/En-au-keep_company.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-keep_company.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep company"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps company",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping company",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept company",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept company",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> company"
      },
      "expansion": "keep company (third-person singular simple present keeps company, present participle keeping company, simple past and past participle kept company)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "keep someone company"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It was rumoured that the lady and the gentleman were keeping company."
        },
        {
          "text": "He was keeping company with her."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To court."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "court",
          "court"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, dated, euphemistic) To court."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "euphemistic",
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If you care about your reputation you ought to be careful whom you keep company with."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To socialize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "socialize",
          "socialize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To socialize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-keep company.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/En-au-keep_company.ogg/En-au-keep_company.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/En-au-keep_company.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep company"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.