means A person employed to manage and maintain a household or to clean and service rooms in a hotel.

from A plain English compound, joining 'house' (Old English 'hus,' a dwelling) with 'keeper,' one who keeps or tends — from the verb 'keep,' Old English 'cepan,' meaning to watch, guard, or hold. The word has named the keeper of a house since at least the 1400s, with the hotel sense following naturally once paying guests gave strangers houses to keep.