housekeeper

noun4

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. •
   (informal, no longer used) 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. — 1915
4. •
   (no longer used) 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. — 1751