housekeeper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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
   noun

   Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

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

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household

5. 5
   noun

   Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.

Etymology

From house + keeper.