housewife

noun

Definition of housewifenext
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 Standing in his boudoir the size of a one-bedroom apartment, Roth often looks half like Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games and half like a housewife in a Douglas Sirk film. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026 Denise has written a novel in secret, about a frustrated housewife itching to leave her husband and kids for a rich, fulfilling life in New York. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026 The police’s suspicions had begun after an officer questioned the housewife who worked in the pachinko parlor next door. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 Or maybe that’s just how every housewife learned to make the classic dessert. — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for housewife
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  1. wife
  2. woman
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  • Moore’s Mona Friedman is indeed a familiar figure, a shy and impressionable wife who quietly nods along at dinner, lets people cut in front of her at the store, and seems generally uninterested in sticking up for herself.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The story concerns a blue-collar couple, Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and his wife Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), still struggling to bounce back from the loss of his factory job two years earlier after a brutal government crackdown on striking employees.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of wife
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  • At that time, girls and women were not allowed to box in Ireland (or many other countries).
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Scholars hazarded theories as to how an unschooled middle-aged Black woman from the South could brush with genius.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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