housekeeper
noun
house·keep·er
ˈhau̇s-ˌkē-pər 
1
: one employed to manage the domestic duties involved in maintaining a house
2
: a member of a household who manages the domestic duties of the household
She was her father's housekeeper …—
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery
especially
: one who keeps house in a specified way
was always a good/poor housekeeper
… a tidy housekeeper who kept flowers outside his unit … —Kyle Swenson
Kyle Swenson Examples of housekeeper in a Sentence
they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home
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The Predator star shares three other children — Katherine, Christina and Christopher — with his ex-wife, and one son, Joseph Baena, with his former housekeeper, Mildred Baena.
—Alexandra Hurtado, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Mata’s parents worked as a gardener and a housekeeper.
—Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.
—Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Du Maurier makes good use of many of the usual tropes of the Gothic genre, especially uncanny doubling: Relentlessly and unfavorably compared to the Manderley estate’s bewitching former mistress, the nameless narrator is pushed to the brink of sanity by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
—M.l. Rio, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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Alexandra Hurtado, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Mata’s parents worked as a gardener and a housekeeper.
—Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.
—Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Du Maurier makes good use of many of the usual tropes of the Gothic genre, especially uncanny doubling: Relentlessly and unfavorably compared to the Manderley estate’s bewitching former mistress, the nameless narrator is pushed to the brink of sanity by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.
—M.l. Rio, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for housekeeper
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“Housekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housekeeper. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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housekeeper
noun
house·keep·er
ˈhau̇-ˌskē-pər
: a person employed to take care of a house
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