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housekeeper
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As a noun, housekeeper means someone who owns a house as a place of residence.
Meanings of housekeeper
4 meaningsnoun
now rareSomeone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
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.”
Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
colloquialnow rareSomeone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).