Meaning

2 senses

  1. To keep one's own business private; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning one's own deeds, situation, or thoughts.

  2. To keep a secret for someone else; to be careful, circumspect, or discreet in what one says concerning someone else's deeds, situation, or thoughts.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Keep your own counsel!

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Forms

keeps one's counsel, keeping one's counsel, kept one's counsel, kept one's counsel
Base formkeep one's counsel · to keep one's counsel
3rd person singularkeeps one's counsel
Present participlekeeping one's counsel
Past simplekept one's counsel
Past participlekept one's counsel

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykeep one's counsel
he, she, itkeeps one's counsel

Past simpleLesson

all personskept one's counsel

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kept one's counsel
he, she, ithas kept one's counsel

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill keep one's counsel

Synonyms

5 synonyms
hold one's peacekeep one's cards close to one's chestkeep one's mouth shutkeep one's own counselkeep counsel

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
keenB2keenlykeepA1keeperB2keepsakekefirkeg
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