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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Recent Examples of housewife
Below, a celebration of some of my favorite bad moms from fiction, from the archetypical overbearing suburban Jewish bubbes to horny housewives.
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Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
The series was set to begin filming in the spring and follow Zarin and fellow housewives Kelly Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan in South Florida, according to Deadline.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Zarin is not the only former housewife to have expressed a controversial opinion about Bad Bunny’s halftime show.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
While in a nursing home, Ninny is visited by Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife who's stuck in a rut.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
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Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
The series was set to begin filming in the spring and follow Zarin and fellow housewives Kelly Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan in South Florida, according to Deadline.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Zarin is not the only former housewife to have expressed a controversial opinion about Bad Bunny’s halftime show.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 11 Feb. 2026
While in a nursing home, Ninny is visited by Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife who's stuck in a rut.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewife
Noun
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The 80-foot-long grinning behemoth floating in a roadside pond was built as an anniversary gift for the owner’s whale-loving wife.—
Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Shukr's wife and brother told The Associated Press recently that the retired officer does not have any information about Arad's fate.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Mumma, 44, is charged with tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of Gratton, a 34-year-old transgender woman from Denver who disappeared in April and was found dead in a Lakewood alley in June.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
12 Mar. 2026
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The results showed that women eventually diagnosed with either of these two conditions — 849 with mild cognitive impairment and 752 with dementia — had larger amounts of p-tau217 in their initial blood sample way back in the mid-to-late 1990s.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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