[ before noun ] He was astonished to find nice streets and well-kept houses.
2 taken care of in a proper way that people notice:
She lives in a neighborhood of well-kept lawns and relatively little crime.
How she manages to persuade, cajole, and terrorize colleagues to undertake reviews and, more importantly, to deliver them on time is a well-kept secret.
Almost all of the houses are relatively small and of wood construction, and there is a striking absence of large, well-kept housing.
On the walls around it were photographs of well-kept rice fields.
Relatives who have been visiting the graves of their families for more than 50 years have complained that those well-kept cemeteries have now become wastelands.
Those services take place at thousands of well-kept memorials up and down this land.
But now there are large well-kept forests, many of them with deer, and these are greatly appreciated by the local people.
We went into rooms which were clean, neat and well-kept.
That ought to be examined, never mind examining whether houses are well-kept or not.
