A person who is employed to live in and maintain a lighthouse.
the island has a long history of lighthouse keepers
Example sentencesExamples
- The uncompromising lives of service lived by lonely lighthouse keepers possess a special dignity.
- Like other lighthouse keepers, his function was to keep the lights burning.
- Hill dropped out of art school in Dundee to become a lighthouse keeper.
- Paddy was a lighthouse keeper at the Fastnet, like his father.
- Tom is the lighthouse keeper on a tiny chunk of rock, nearly 100 miles off the Australian coast.