HOUSEKEEPER

housekeeper

(noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

housekeeper (plural housekeepers)

(now, rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. [from 15th c.]

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. [from 16th c.]

Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household. [from 17th c.]

(colloquial, now, rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody. [from 18th c.]

Coordinate terms

• housemaid

Source: Wiktionary

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House"keep`er, n.

1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

3. One who exercises hospitality, or has plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

4. One who keeps or stays much at home. [R.] You are manifest housekeeper. Shak.

5. A house dog. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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