homemaker
28
2.7
- noun
- /ˈhoʊmˌmeɪkər/
:
ama de casa
- As a dedicated homemaker, she managed the household and ensured everything ran smoothly.
- homemaker and breadwinner
- homemaker mother
- full-time homemaker
You know, some people will love being a homemaker and some people love going out to work.
- You know, some people will love being a homemaker and some people love going out to work.
- Well, maybe you're a great writer or you're a great musician or you're just you're a great mom and homemaker and taking care of the family.
- By prior agreement, rather than go to college after high school, you got married and you became a homemaker.
- Business leaders, teachers, homemakers, basketball players.
- Let's talk about the doctors, the nurses, the servicemen, the mums, the wives, the homemakers, the teachers.
- Some of them are UPS drivers, some of them are dentist, some of them are, you know, homemakers.
- But of course they are society women homemakers are society and and more and more girls, women that I talk to.
Examples
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Ten other caregivers were full-time homemakers, and two others were students.
Academic text (2005) -
You have to remember that in 1948, being a capable homemaker was considered a noble profession.
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You know, some people will love being a homemaker and some people love going out to work.
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But for much of her life, she was the typical American homemaker, I would say.
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My mother was a homemaker.
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Nobody said it was going to be easy, being a homemaker and a stay-at-home mum.
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Women survive better because their roles as mothers, spouses, and homemakers are not attacked in the same fashion.
Fiction book (2002) -
We ignore the qualities women bring to their roles as homemakers and child rearers at our peril.
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Let's talk about the doctors, the nurses, the servicemen, the mums, the wives, the homemakers, the teachers.
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Well, maybe you're a great writer or you're a great musician or you're just you're a great mom and homemaker and taking care of the family.
Synonyms
80
1.4
A married woman who manages her home and cares for her family
9
3.9
A woman who runs the home and cares for the family
3
8.9
A woman who runs her home and cares for her family
1
9.9
A married woman who manages the home in old times
1
3.7
A wife who runs the household while her husband earns money
Antonyms
How Career-Focused
- Offensive
3
6.3
9
3.5
- Archaic
3
3.8
14
3.2
8
3.0
28
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Homemaker is simply home + maker, where home means 'house' and maker means 'one who makes'. So a homemaker is someone who 'makes' the home by caring for the house and the family, which is why it means a person who manages the household.