as in wife
a married woman in charge of a household
She was career-minded and never intended to be a 1950s style housewife.
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At age 90, the University of Chicago emeritus professor stood demurely before an audience of local teachers, plumbers, children and housewives explaining complex diagrams and math equations on an overhead projector.
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
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
And, in the early twentieth century, images of the modern Chinese female student or housewife were powerful symbols of new ways of life that seemed relevant to men as well.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Jan. 2025
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Bob clarified that all the traitors agreed a housewife should go and that Dorinda would be the first.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
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
And, in the early twentieth century, images of the modern Chinese female student or housewife were powerful symbols of new ways of life that seemed relevant to men as well.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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