Housekeeper

Quick meaning: Housekeeper is a noun meaning Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.

Meaning

Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, now rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
2. (now rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
3. 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.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• housekeepers
• house keeper
• house-keeper

Synonyms for housekeeper

Depending on context, synonyms include housewife.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include housewife, homemaker, housekeeping, housework, babysitter, governess.

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