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
And leading that charge is their den mother, a pampered, spoiled Beverly Hills housewife who becomes surprisingly resourceful and inspirational to the troop.
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 8 May 2025
She was initially announced as the latest Miami housewife at Bravo Fan Fest last year.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
And in an episode dedicated to Astoria — a nice change of view — a stereotypical housewife from a TV coffee commercial materializes in her living room.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 8 May 2025
She was initially announced as the latest Miami housewife at Bravo Fan Fest last year.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
And in an episode dedicated to Astoria — a nice change of view — a stereotypical housewife from a TV coffee commercial materializes in her living room.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewife
Noun
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When my son was going to be born, my then wife had to glue shut some of the pages in this having-a-baby book.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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Morris had asked for an initial payment of $1 million and an annual retirement package of $600,000 to $800,000 for the rest of his and his wife’s lives, plus other benefits.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 May 2025
Noun
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Archies Arch Support Flip Flops $40 at Amazon The Archies flip flops are made for both men and women with every size from a women’s 4 to a men’s 15.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
28 May 2025
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But, the shooting victim and woman had split up by that point.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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