Housekeeper

//ˈhaʊskipɚ// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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.

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

  2. 2
    a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
  4. 4
    Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody. archaic, colloquial

    "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."

  5. 5
    Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. archaic

    "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."

Etymology

From house + keeper.

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