housekeeper

noun

Etymology: From house + keeper.

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.”

   “The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.”

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.

   “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.

   “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.”