as in housewife
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Recent Examples of hausfrau
The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II.
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Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
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Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
14 Jan. 2025
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Jean-Baptiste delivers this utterance with the hollowness of someone who’s just come back from a war instead of a housewife and mother who picks fights with employees at a furniture store.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the 1930s and ’40s, Kraft began marketing Velveeta successfully, if rather dubiously, as a health food and diet aid, and its low price and convenience—beloved by kids, shelf-stable, melts like a dream—charmed America’s homemakers throughout the suburban ’60s and beyond.—
David Levine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Dec. 2024
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He was born in 1948 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, the son of an electrical technician and a homemaker and one of five children.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The adaptation will star Sweeney as Millie, a young woman on her last chance who becomes a housekeeper for the well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew.—
Erin Strecker,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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The housekeeper watched as the young couple began investing in houses around the area, renting them out and relying on the proceeds as their main source of income.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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