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Homemaker   /hˈoʊmmˌeɪkər/   Listen
Homemaker

noun
1.
A wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income.  Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house.






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"Homemaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... call her manners mighty comfortable ones," returned the young man. "She's a practical homemaker, that's what she is; and you're a—well, it's unintelligent of you to go on living alone, that's all, with that wrinkled map of Ireland for ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... found herself strongly attracted to Pearl. Pearl, the housekeeper, the homemaker, a child with a woman's responsibility, appealed to Mrs. Francis. She thought about Pearl ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung

... public land into the hands of a few men, and to the enormous waste caused by unrestricted grazing upon the open range. The recommendations of the Public Lands Commission are sound, for they are especially in the interest of the actual homemaker; and where the small home-maker can not at present utilize the land they provide that the Government shall keep control of it so that it may not be monopolized by a few men. The Congress has not yet acted upon these recommendations; but they are so just and proper, so essential to our ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various



Words linked to "Homemaker" :   married woman, woman of the house, wife, housewife



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