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housekeeper

UK/ˈhaʊskiːpə/US/ˈhaʊskipɚ/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,366 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: housekeepers

A housekeeper is somebody employed to manage a household. The housekeeper's room, hire a housekeeper, ask the housekeeper.

In a great house the post was senior — the housekeeper ran the female staff and answered only to the family, and she was addressed as Mrs whether married or not. In a hotel the housekeeper runs the cleaning department. Note the compound of house and keeper.

Definitions of housekeeper

  1. 1nounhousekeeperSomebody employed to manage a household.B2

    “The housekeeper had worked for the family for years and knew where everything was kept.”

housekeeper is a job.

Where it comes from

House plus keeper. The post was one of the most senior in a large household.

From house + keeper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

housekeeper in the wild

  • The housekeeper may also perform some light catering and cleaning duties.

    Housekeeper (domestic worker)

  • A housekeeper is a person employed to manage a household and the domestic staff.

    Housekeeping

  • Born and raised in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Raffald went into domestic service for fifteen years, ending as the housekeeper to the Warburton baronets at Arley Hall, Cheshire.

    Elizabeth Raffald

  • The second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, was played by Nedra Volz.

    Diff'rent Strokes

  • Margaret "Peggy" Thompson, later Margaret Neilson, was the housekeeper at Coilsfield House or Montgomery Castle in Ayrshire, Scotland.

    Peggy Thompson

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.