Synonym: homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house. Similar words: housework, wife, midwifery, sewing, rose window, sewing basket, make common cause with, vociferous. Meaning: [haʊswaɪf] 
n. a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income.
n. a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income. 
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1. I don't want to be a housewife after marriage.
2. She feels penned by her life as a housewife.
3. She typifies the bored housewife.
4. The housewife crushes out juice from oranges.
5. The housewife plied us with cakes.
6. Last week a housewife was electrocuted by her washing machine.
7. She's a housewife when she's not teaching English, that is.
8. Sometimes being a mother and a housewife felt like a thankless task .
9. I muttered like a fractious housewife.
10. I do think of myself as a housewife.
11. Mrs Susan Smith, 25 years old[http://sentencedict.com], housewife.
12. A housewife soul must metamorphose into a full-blown housewife.
13. Phoebe began to feel like a housewife.
14. The housewife receives no wage for her work.
15. Sandy, who had been primarily a housewife in her former marriage[sentencedict.com], wanted an equal partnership and full-time work.
16. She was an Ohio housewife with three kids when she got the idea to write a funny column for the local newspaper.
17. The addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife.
18. Today, dressed like a housewife, she looked more human than usual, less distantly dignified.
19. How New Ways With Eyeshadow turn a housewife to a teaser.
20. She is a 61-year-old housewife and does not receive a tax return.
21. The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship.
22. The motivations of the middle-aged housewife or the young man with good career prospects who joined Militant, remained unexplored.
23. The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder.
24. A working-class housewife married to a machine operator declares: Housework is boring.
25. She feels penned in by her life as a housewife.
26. The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
27. A second possibility is that social ranking of wife or housewife roles varies with different socio-economic contexts.
28. All these strands of thought fulfil a latent function for the housewife.
29. The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken.
30. One was a 68-year-old lawyer, the other a 73-year-old housewife.
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