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
As Henry Kissinger, who would become Richard Nixon’s Secretary of State, put it, no American President was likely to risk the life of a housewife in Kansas to protect that of one in Hamburg.
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Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
But try bouncing from a pop star version of 1500s English queen Anne Boleyn to a drunk 1985 housewife to a lusty 1955 teenager.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Spending 34 years as a housewife — all of it in Bayport — was a fantastic learning experience for me.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
The work which introduced her signature figure, Welsh housewife Beryl, on a trip to see a male stripper, won the Special Jury Prize.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 June 2025
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Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
But try bouncing from a pop star version of 1500s English queen Anne Boleyn to a drunk 1985 housewife to a lusty 1955 teenager.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025
Spending 34 years as a housewife — all of it in Bayport — was a fantastic learning experience for me.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
The work which introduced her signature figure, Welsh housewife Beryl, on a trip to see a male stripper, won the Special Jury Prize.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewife
Noun
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Just after deputies led him away, his wife Lois headed to her car for the eight-hour drive back to Tallahassee.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
19 July 2025
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Joe’s malleable wife Louise (Emma Stone) falls under the sway of both her conspiracy theorist mom (Deirdre O’Connell) and the charismatic leader (Austin Butler) of a QAnon-type cult.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
Noun
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Every student who takes Lavigne’s class, every young person who sees a Black woman owning and operating a cooking school in New Orleans, receives a different message about what’s possible.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The Mountain West hired the firm to handle the investigation in the same month that the same firm represented the conference to protect Fleming's eligibility in a request for preliminary injunction to have the trans athlete disqualified from women's competition and the conference tournament.—
Ryan Gaydos , Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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“Housewife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housewife. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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