Housekeeper meaning : Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder. 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. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household. Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.