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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Each had played an iconic housewife, although Molly stood in fascinating contrast with Lucy Ricardo: the former was a fixer, the latter a firecracker, prone to fits of mischievous rage, then spanked into submission by her bandleader husband.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Smiley appeared on the very first season of RHOC as the fiancé of O.G. housewife Jo De La Rosa.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
6 June 2025
Noun
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He was born an only child, on Jan. 22, 1937, to Anne, a homemaker, and Joseph, a steel worker and for a short time the police chief of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2025
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By offering plants, flowers and entire window boxes, the women supported homemakers of lesser means.—
Sonja Dümpelmann,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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The alliance is targeting a law that’s slated to push the hourly minimum wage to $22.50 on July 1 for housekeepers, parking attendants and hotel restaurant workers, as well as LAX skycaps, baggage handlers and concession employees.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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In the lawsuit against Robison, which was filed on May 6, the accusers identified themselves as four former housekeepers who worked at his Chatsworth home between 2006 and 2024.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
29 May 2025
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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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