goodwife
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡʊdˌwaɪf/
- Archaic
:
buena esposa
- "Never even thought of it!" cried Goodwife Corgin.
- Goodwife Proctor
Examples
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"Good day to you, goodwife," he said, still swinging the hammer, still holding the steel-edged cutting tool to its task.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the narrower streets, there were homes, small simple white-plastered buildings with flat roofs and no windows onto the street, ready for families to walk in and sit on benches before cold fireplaces or around narrow tables with carved legs where a goodwife's best bowl or platter was given pride of place.
Fiction book (1992) -
- Yes... now, let me be a goodwife.
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Turning to the goodwife, he sees she sleeps.
Fiction book (1997) -
But the Westfield goodwife claimed otherwise.
Academic text (2005) -
Mr. Parris, go to the jail... and bring Goodwife Proctor here.
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Perrin thought of a goodwife herding geese.
Fiction book (1991) -
She was my goodwife.
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"Good day to you, goodwife," he said as he entered the house to find her preparing dinner.
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Sarah often helped her goodwife friends with household chores during the harvest season.
Synonyms
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1.0
A married woman who is someone's partner
80
1.4
A married woman who manages her home and cares for her family
28
2.7
A person who manages a home and cares for their family
9
3.9
A woman who runs the home and cares for the family
1
3.7
A wife who runs the household while her husband earns money
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word goodwife is made of good ('good') and wife ('married woman'). It was once a polite title for a married woman who managed the household, so today it sounds old-fashioned and means a woman who looks after a home.