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A wife who who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
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homemaker
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Word definitions for homemaker in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For years she was a homemaker raising three children. ▪ So why is homemaker Toshio Someya so happy? ▪ Sorry frustrated homemakers - and take heart, luncheon tycoons - that's not quite true. ▪ Terri had become a homemaker since ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also home-maker , "woman considered as a domestic agent," by 1861, American English, from home (n.) + agent noun from make (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wife who who manages a household while her husband earns the family income [syn: housewife , lady of the house , woman of the house ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A person who maintains the upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home.
Usage examples of homemaker.
Next, those nightmares of newlywed homemakers, raw sienna and burnt sienna.
Through the bars on breakfast nook windows he saw rough homemakers with stubble and scars cooking breakfast.
Trout was talking to a Maggie White, who had given up being a dental assistant to become a homemaker for an optometrist.
Some conservative people may also be uncomfortable if a woman were successful in a masculine role--executive, pilot, priest--or if a man were successful in a feminine role--nurse, hair stylist, homemaker.
Claire Raymond, a thirty-five-year-old homemaker from Secaucus, looked around in respectful awe at the high ceiling and looming marble columns, as well as the lofty bay windows looking out on nearby Lake Geneva.