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
The streamer also teased what’s in store for each of their housewives across the new season.
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
This push into traditional housewife and breadwinner roles came after many women had been working outside the home during the war in jobs usually held by men.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2025
The housewife whose life goes south is kind of a specialty of yours, in Days of Wine and Roses, in The Bridges of Madison County, in The Hours.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 June 2025
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.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2025
This push into traditional housewife and breadwinner roles came after many women had been working outside the home during the war in jobs usually held by men.
—Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2025
The housewife whose life goes south is kind of a specialty of yours, in Days of Wine and Roses, in The Bridges of Madison County, in The Hours.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 30 June 2025
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.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housewife
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Notable newcomers include a pair of Sutherland Suites, named after the British modernist painter Graham Sutherland, who lived and painted in the hotel for eight years (and whose wife is rumored to currently inhabit the premises, albeit in ghostly form).—
Rima Suqi,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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In addition to doing a podcast with his wife, Jeremy also frequently posts videos discussing his faith.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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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 7 Aug. 2025.
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