homemakers

plural of homemaker
as in wives
chiefly US a person who does work at home and usually does not have another job outside the home TV commercials often show happy homemakers.

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Recent Examples of homemakers Around him sat ten women—all of them homemakers and nurses—and one seven-year-old girl. Joshua Sharpe august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Jeffs married as many as 78 wives, including 24 underage girls, and oversaw the abuse of other women and children.
    James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The crux of the cast was assembled around Marks’ friend group in New York City — not the idea of a show with the offspring of housewives.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The new series assembles 10 housewives from across the continent for what producers are calling a celebration of Pan-African sisterhood and glamor.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The couple's staff like the children's nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, who has been with the family since George was a baby, and the housekeepers are expected to live on other smaller properties on the estate.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Many of our neighbors have housekeepers, gardeners, carpenters, etc.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Homemakers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homemakers. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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