housekeeper B2 Topic:House & Home Also spelled house-keeper US /ˈhaʊskipɚ/ UK /ˈhaʊskiːpə/ See IPA manual Freq #8102 Meanings 1 noun A person employed to manage and clean a home, hotel, or institution. The hotel hired a new housekeeper to look after the rooms. Thesaurus Word family Forms housekeepers Derived forms housekeeperesshousekeeperlesshousekeeperly Etymology AI details From house + keeper. Topics House & Home External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # housekeeper **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈhaʊskipɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈhaʊskiːpə/ **Frequency rank:** 8102 ## Meanings 1. A person employed to manage and clean a home, hotel, or institution. ## Examples - The hotel hired a new housekeeper to look after the rooms. ## Derived Forms - housekeeperess - housekeeperless - housekeeperly ## Etymology From house + keeper. ## AI Etymology Housekeeper comes from house + keeper. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named elements. In current use, the main sense is “A person employed to manage and clean a home, hotel, or institution”. ## Topics - House & Home markdown