housekeeper

Meaning

  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.
  2. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
  3. (archaic, colloquial) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
  4. (archaic) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhaʊskipɚ/
Etymology

From house + keeper.

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