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Housekeeper

/ˈhaʊskipɚ/ · noun

Meaning

Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc..

Definitions by Sense

  1. Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
  2. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
  3. (colloquial, now rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
  4. (now rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.

Example Sentences

She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
When management of the toney Copley Plaza Hotel ordered housekeepers recently to put down their mops and hand wash the floors, a furor arose among the hotel cleaning staff. Local union representatives and others concerned with issues affecting women workers also rallied in anger to protest the directive, which in essence forced housekeepers to scrub on their hands and knees.
I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does housekeeper mean?

Housekeeper means Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc..

What is a synonym for housekeeper?

Common synonyms include housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house.

What is the opposite of housekeeper?

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

How do you use housekeeper in a sentence?

She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.

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