lighthousekeeper

UK/laɪt.haʊs kiːpə/US/laɪt.haʊs kiːpɚ/

A form of lighthouse keeper — A person who lives in a lighthouse and tends the light together with its optics and mechanisms.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

nounlighthousekeeper (plural lighthousekeepers)

plural lighthousekeepers · alternative lighthouse-keeper

  1. alternativeAlternative form of lighthouse keeper.

    But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy.

    2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro
    3 more examples

    Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana.

    1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination

    After this sparkling gambit, Wilson tells Holmes he has taken up the job of lighthouse-keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, which illuminates a passage between the mainland and the island of Uffa, [...]

    2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock Holmes

    Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.

    2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today

Origin

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APA

lighthousekeeper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lighthousekeeper

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“lighthousekeeper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lighthousekeeper. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lighthousekeeper,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lighthousekeeper.

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