housewife
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1.4
- noun
- /ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf/
:
ama de casa
- In accord with traditional divisions of labor, Ted is the breadwinner and Marge is a housewife.
- role of a housewife
- housewife and mother
- just a housewife
She's like, you know, housewife, stay at home mom.
- She's like, you know, housewife, stay at home mom.
- I had a young housewife, two young kids.
- And my mom was a housewife before she wrote her cookbooks.
- And my mother was a housewife and she was raised, born and raised in Flint.
- Meaning the behaviors of cooking, cleaning, housewife, all that stuff.
- So if it's, let's suppose it's a housewife that has everything perfect and, and nothing's wrong.
- And in that moment, I had the mindset of I was a good Greek housewife that doesn't let my husband down.
- I have found an article about a housewife prepper.
- It's like a cult, like a bunch of screeching housewives.
- And then I have this blue one also super cute, ugly housewife.
- His wife, Stephanie Miller, she's a quirky housewife.
Examples
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And my mom was a housewife before she wrote her cookbooks.
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Your father is the manager of a bank... ...and your mother is a happy housewife.
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His mother was a housewife, staying at home to care for two other children.
Fiction book (1995) -
Cooking, the most prestigious task of a housewife, was particularly important.
Academic text (2006) -
And my mother was a housewife and she was raised, born and raised in Flint.
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Why, it's a housewife's dream.
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I can play the dutiful housewife.
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Her upbringing had made her a frugal housewife, a good, if simple cook, and an excellent seamstress.
Fiction book (1992) -
By age 27, she was a frustrated housewife with two kids in suburban New Jersey.
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And my mom was a housewife before she wrote her cookbooks.
Synonyms
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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
3
8.9
A woman who runs her home and cares for her family
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9.9
A married woman who manages the home in old times
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3.7
A wife who runs the household while her husband earns money
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Housewife comes from the simple words house and wife, and it originally meant a 'woman of the house' who looks after the home and family. So the modern meaning — a married woman who manages the household — keeps the same idea.