[
US
/ˈhaʊˌswaɪf/
]
NOUN
- a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
How To Use housewife In A Sentence
- A series of essays from various regular Americans on love, work, and life in the United States, including a housewife and supermarket checker.
- Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.
- His father worked on building sites, his mother was a housewife.
- French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other Dead Souls
- The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
- Williams is to play an unhappy housewife who decides a lobotomy will cure her depression.
- I am a housewife raising a family, paying a mortgage and doing the usual things that people do.
- A limerick novelist has just launched her second novel, a tale of a bored housewife with a dark secret.
- Indeed, Moulsworth vows to transmute the faulty model provided by the Biblical Martha, the archetypal busy housewife: Moulsworth plans to "dight" (or make ready) her "Inward house" (l. 19) and thus prepare an appropriate habitation for Christ. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
- Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife.