keep to oneself

1. 1.

   shun the company of others

   “The new student keeps to herself”
2. 2.

   withhold information

   “I kept your little secret to myself all these years”

   Broaderwithhold

Questions about keep to oneself

What does keep to oneself mean?

keep to oneself means "shun the company of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is keep to oneself a common word?

keep to oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.