Housekeeper
//ˈhaʊskipɚ// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household wordnet
- 3 Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
- 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 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."
Example
More examples"Mrs. Suzuki is a very economical housekeeper."
Etymology
From house + keeper.
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