HOUSEKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housekeeper mean? 

• HOUSEKEEPER (noun)
  The noun HOUSEKEEPER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HOUSEKEEPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("housekeeper" is a kind of...):

domestic; domestic help; house servant (a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household)

Derivation:

housekeep (maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household)

 Context examples 

A middle-aged woman, who was, I suppose, his housekeeper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is a sunbeam in my house—sweet, loving, beautiful, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and gentle as a woman could be.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am sure your housekeeper is not really Dorothy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The mother I could not avoid, as long as my tiresome aunt was dancing about with the housekeeper, but the son I can get away from.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Well—but if any difficulties should arise, my housekeeper is extremely clever.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Like most other young matrons, Meg began her married life with the determination to be a model housekeeper.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But Bessie, as soon as she had dressed her young ladies, used to take herself off to the lively regions of the kitchen and housekeeper's room, generally bearing the candle along with her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was his little housekeeper, his daughter Agnes, Mr. Wickfield said.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now, you will remember also that Mrs. Porter, the housekeeper, told us that she herself fainted upon entering the room and had afterwards opened the window.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can now say with the housekeeper, that though some people may call him proud, I have seen nothing of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)