gamekeeper

[ geym-kee-per ]

noun

1. a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.

gamekeeper

/ ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpə /

noun

1. a person employed to take care of game and wildlife, as on an estate

Derived Forms

• ˈgameˌkeeping, noun

Other Words From

• gamekeeping noun
• under·gamekeeper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gamekeeper¹

First recorded in 1660–70; game ¹ + keeper

Example Sentences

It was a kind of gamekeeper chic.

From BBC

A part-time gamekeeper and his son who raided peregrine falcon nests have been banned from keeping birds of prey.

From BBC

There are also of course the malevolent ghosts, whose sole function, it seems, is to keep a story going, like a record on repeat: The vile gamekeeper keen on having temporary lodgers learn — and, better yet, reenact — his gruesome tale.

From Los Angeles Times

A new team of Kenyan police officers re-examined the case in 1997 and in 1999 a gamekeeper was tried and acquitted of the crime.

From BBC

"We would have 50 people sat round a big table here sometimes," said Medunov, the hunting gamekeeper in the village of Lysohirka who turns 69 this week.

From Reuters

Related Words

• administrator
• caretaker
• curator
• superintendent