housekeeper

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

  • From house + keeper.

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