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housekeeper Definition

house·keeper (-kēp′ər)

noun

a person who manages a household; esp., a woman hired to do this

housekeeper Synonyms

housekeeper

n.

wife and mother, caretaker, serving woman, help*; see housewife, servant.

housekeeper Usage Examples

Possessives

  • room: The housekeeper's room was rather nearer to the front of the house than the pantry in which Ames had been working.

Converse of object

  • employ: Similarly, a man or woman may employ a housekeeper or servant of the other sex.
  • become: Synopsis On the run from the wicked queen, Snow White becomes housekeeper to a bunch of diminutive miners.
  • have: In a number of areas posts such has Housekeepers have been in place for many years.
  • hire: With the money they sent we were able to hire a housekeeper for the next three months and it saved my life!
  • come: Miss Pratt seems to have been a good choice of nanny come housekeeper.
  • name: In which 1970s US sitcom did Ann B Davis play a housekeeper named Alice?

Adjective modifier

  • former: He was mainly raised by a former slave housekeeper of whom he was very fond.
  • poor: The Charity allowed for weekly payments to poor housekeepers.
  • old: And you saw the old housekeeper, I suppose?
  • good: I could hardly believe that I had successfully accomplished my goal of being a good housekeeper ( at least for a day!
  • new: Matt tries to think of a nice way to fire the new housekeeper.
  • faithful: The servants placed meat for him, and the faithful housekeeper brought him bread to eat.

Modifies a noun

  • Mrs: Father Ted's faithful housekeeper Mrs Doyle is to front a new advertising campaign for the Inland Revenue.
  • role: Nearly all the sites inspected indicated that they have a housekeeper role in their cleaning services.

Noun used with modifier

  • live-in: He tells her he's got a new live-in housekeeper to help look after the kids.
  • ward: In the reports one patient comments: " My ward housekeeper was very efficient.
  • head: The Plan requires that head housekeepers are in place by 2004.
  • resident: There was a resident manager and, possibly, also a resident housekeeper.
  • nanny: A nanny housekeeper can by employed live out ( daily ), live in, on temporary or permanent basis.
housekeeper Quotes

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.

—Pigou, Arthur Cecil

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven