greenkeeper
noun
greenkeeper is a noun meaning “An employee responsible for the maintenance of a golf course” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-R-E-E-N-K-E-E-P-E-R, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of greenkeeper is greenkeepers.
What does greenkeeper mean?
noun
- 1
An employee responsible for the maintenance of a golf course.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of greenkeeper
- greenkeepers plural
- greenskeeper
- green keeper
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is greenkeeper?
Greenkeeper appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does greenkeeper come from?
From green + keeper.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).