Word Meanings - HOUSEKEEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. 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

Additional info about word: HOUSEKEEPER

1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. 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. 3. One who exercises hospitality, or has plentiful and hospitable household. Sir H. Wotton. 4. One who keeps or stays much at home. You are manifest housekeeper. Shak. 5. A house dog. Shak.

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• HIRUDINE
  Of or pertaining to the leeches.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• HOUSEBOTE
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• HOUSEROOM
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• MISTRESS
  magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
• HIRELING
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• HIRE
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• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• HOUSEWIFELY
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.
• HOUSEMAID
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  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• HIRUDINEA
  An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.
• SHIRT WAIST
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• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
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  One who shirks. Macaulay.
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  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
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• WAREHOUSE
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• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
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