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housewares

housewares

1 1.6
Things you use in the home for cooking and cleaning like pots and pans
  • noun
  • /ˈhaʊsˌwɛrz/
translation icon : artículos para el hogar
  • At the store, I found lots of housewares that made cleaning and cooking more efficient.

Our first business was sourcing housewares and home furnishings from Asia and supplying UK retail and we were disrupting the supply chain.

Examples

  • Kate had taken on extra hours at Belk, working now in both Housewares and Misses.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Last year at the International Home and Housewares Show, I was introduced to a product called "Happy Light Energy Lamp" from Verilux.

    Blog text (23)

  • You drive to the mall in a new car and spend two hours in Housewares on the second floor.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Lifshey, E. 1973. The Housewares Story. Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturers Association.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Lifshey, E. 1973. The Housewares Story. Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturers Association.

    Academic text (1990)

  • I'll be in Housewares.

    Positive I.D. (1986)

  • Our first business was sourcing housewares and home furnishings from Asia and supplying UK retail and we were disrupting the supply chain.

    Rob Moore

  • Don't miss Harrison's Home Inventions, Lifshey's The Housewares Story, and Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everything.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The kitchen was filled with various housewares, including pots, pans, and cleaning supplies.

  • She bought new housewares to organize her kitchen and simplify her cooking tasks.

How Specialized

kit
302 1.6
equipment
∞ 1.9
housewares
1 1.6

Surface Forms

housewares plural

Morphology

housewares = houseware (transparent) = house + ware + s

Formed by the compound 'houseware' plus regular plural '-s'; its meaning follows directly from 'house' + 'ware' and simple pluralization.

Etymology

Housewares is a simple compound: house + wares, and wares means 'goods' or things for sale, as in silverware or hardware. So housewares are the goods you buy for the home, especially for cooking, cleaning, and other household tasks.