Crossword clues for housekeeper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Housekeeper \House"keep`er\, n.
One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
--Locke.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.
One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.]
--Sir H. Wotton.-
One who keeps or stays much at home. [R.]
You are manifest housekeeper.
--Shak. A house dog. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who looks after the home by herself; either as a wife or a hired servant. 2 A woman who supervises the female domestic staff of a large home. 3 One who supervises the cleaning staff of a hospital, hotel, or similar business.
WordNet
n. a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
Wikipedia
A housekeeper is an individual responsible for the supervision of a house's cleaning staff.
Housekeeper may refer to:
- Housekeeper (domestic worker), a person heading up domestic maintenance
- "House Keeper" (song), 1996 song by Men of Vizion
- Maid, a female with various domestic duties
- Janitor, a person responsible for institutional maintenance
- A person engaged in housekeeping
Usage examples of "housekeeper".
She said she had been taught to guide voors long ago, before she was the Archimage, and her teacher had been the Vispi woman Magira who now served as the housekeeper of the Tower.
People at Raynham were put on their guard by the baronet, and his reputation for wisdom was severely criticized in consequence of the injunctions he thought fit to issue through butler and housekeeper down to the lower household, for the preservation of his son from any visible symptom of the passion.
A stormy scene resulted which left the old housekeeper spent and Beryl blazing with indignation.
Here we are, qualified butler and housekeeper, and no one to buttle and housekeep for.
Lucy calls hotels where she carries her own bags, uses her magnetized room key to let herself into the gym and fills her own ice bucket, and where the housekeepers are shocked when left a tip.
I offered her my arm, her husband offered his to my housekeeper, and we went out.
Perhaps one of your agents, count, could send word to my housekeeper, Palmyre, to tell her I am coming home?
The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.
When the horses were put in I embraced Baletti, his little girl, and his pretty housekeeper, and ordered the postillion to drive to Mannheim.
Through the negligence, real or assumed, of the housekeeper, the poursuivants and constables had already entered with drawn swords.
As the housekeeper led Catherine away, Quint tried to give her a reassuring smile.
The housekeeper looked at us oddly, rumpled and sleepy in our fancy clothes.
Happy to be cooking veal again, the housekeeper had made superb scallopini in Marsala.
Brighton have been servants themselves, are retired housekeepers, tradesfolk, and the like.
His kids needed a mother to love them, not just an uninvolved housekeeper, and he suspected that whether she knew it or not, she needed them.