housekeeper.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
Where this word comes from
From house + keeper.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.