housekeeper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhaʊskiːpə/    美 /ˈhaʊskipɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
  3. Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody. archaic,colloquial
    — I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
  4. Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. archaic
    — He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.

词形变化

housekeepers plural house keeper alternative house-keeper alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
housekeeperess housekeeperless housekeeperly
并列词
housemaid

词源

From house + keeper.
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