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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
Patrick Dempsey

Meaning of "housekeeping" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOUSEKEEPING

housekeeping  [ˈhaʊsˌkiːpɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOUSEKEEPING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Housekeeping is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOUSEKEEPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Housekeeping

Housekeeping refers to the management of duties and chores involved in the running of a household, such as cleaning, cooking, home maintenance, shopping and bill pay. These tasks may be performed by the household members, or by other persons hired to perform these tasks. The term is also used to refer to the money allocated for such use. By extension, an office or organization, as well as the maintenance of computer storage systems. A housekeeper is a person employed to manage a household, and the domestic staff. According to Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, the housekeeper is second in command in the house and "except in large establishments, where there is a house steward, the housekeeper must consider herself as the immediate representative of her mistress".

Definition of housekeeping in the English dictionary

The first definition of housekeeping in the dictionary is the running of a household. Other definition of housekeeping is money allocated for the running of a household. Housekeeping is also organization and tidiness in general, as of an office, shop, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOUSEKEEPING


beekeeping
ˈbiːˌkiːpɪŋ
creeping
ˈkriːpɪŋ
gamekeeping
ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpɪŋ
gatekeeping
ˈɡeɪtˌkiːpɪŋ
goalkeeping
ˈɡəʊlˌkiːpɪŋ
heaping
ˈhiːpɪŋ
keeping
ˈkiːpɪŋ
mine-sweeping
ˈmaɪnˌswiːpɪŋ
minesweeping
ˈmaɪnˌswiːpɪŋ
peacekeeping
ˈpiːsˌkiːpɪŋ
reaping
ˈriːpɪŋ
record-keeping
ˈrɛkɔːdˌkiːpɪŋ
safekeeping
ˈseɪfˈkiːpɪŋ
shopkeeping
ˈʃɒpˌkiːpɪŋ
sleeping
ˈsliːpɪŋ
storekeeping
ˈstɔːˌkiːpɪŋ
sweeping
ˈswiːpɪŋ
timekeeping
ˈtaɪmˌkiːpɪŋ
unsleeping
ʌnˈsliːpɪŋ
weeping
ˈwiːpɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOUSEKEEPING

household name
household rubbish
household soap
household troops
household word
householder
householdership
househusband
housekeep
housekeeper
housel
houseleek
houseless
houselessness
houseline
houseling
houselled
houselling
housemaid
housemaid´s knee

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOUSEKEEPING

book-keeping
camping
double-entry book-keeping
dropping
helping
hopping
landscaping
mapping
overlapping
ping
propping
shipping
shopping
single entry book-keeping
stepping
stopping
stripping
typing
wrapping
yelping

Synonyms and antonyms of housekeeping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HOUSEKEEPING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «housekeeping» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of housekeeping

Translation of «housekeeping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOUSEKEEPING

Find out the translation of housekeeping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of housekeeping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «housekeeping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

料理家务
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajos domésticos
570 millions of speakers

English

housekeeping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हाउसकीपिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التدبير المنزلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уборка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalhos domésticos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গৃহস্থালি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ménage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengemasan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hauswirtschaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

家事
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

살림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

tukang resik resik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vệ sinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செலவுகளுக்கான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हाउसकीपिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ev idaresi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gestione della casa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sprzątanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прибирання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

menaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καθαριότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huishouding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hushållning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

housekeeping
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of housekeeping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEKEEPING»

The term «housekeeping» is very widely used and occupies the 6.604 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEKEEPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about housekeeping

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9 QUOTES WITH «HOUSEKEEPING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word housekeeping.
1
Pamela Anderson
I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
2
Edgar Bergen
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
3
Marcelene Cox
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
4
Robert Crippen
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
5
Patrick Dempsey
Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
6
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
7
Sylvia Earle
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
8
Diane von Furstenberg
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.
9
Ellen G. White
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSEKEEPING»

Discover the use of housekeeping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to housekeeping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Housekeeping: A Novel
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, ...
Marilynne Robinson, 2004
2
Housekeeping: A Novel
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great ...
Marilynne Robinson, 2014
3
Housekeeping
Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the ...
Marilynne Robinson, 2011
4
Professional Management of Housekeeping Operations
Revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the hospitality industry, this Fifth Edition includes: Expanded focus on environmental trends affecting housekeeping, including Green Tips sidebars—practical hints for environment ...
Thomas J. A. Jones, 2007
5
Dad's Own Housekeeping Book
From laundry room to attic storage, from the “Five- Minute Attack Plan: Bathroom” to the all-out assault of spring cleaning (it really does make a big difference), from mold to stains to picking-up-after-the-kids-without-driving ...
David Bowers, 2006
6
Good Housekeeping 100 Best Chicken Recipes
The newest cookbook in Good Housekeeping's best-selling "100 Best" series focuses on a favorite food: versatile, low-calorie chicken.
The Editors of Good Housekeeping, 2005
7
The Good Housekeeping Cookbook: 1,039 Recipes from America's ...
Presents recipes for more than 1300 dishes together with information on cooking techniques, healthy eating, meal planning, food safety considerations, and an illustrated listing of fruits and vegetables.
Susan Westmoreland, 2007
8
Sacred Housekeeping: A Spiritual Memoir
This is the personal story of the obstacles she surmounted and the successes she encountered. This book also tells the unconventional love story of Harriet Rossetto and her husband, Rabbi Mark Borovitz.
Harriet Rossetto, 2012
9
The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook: America's ...
Carefully diagrammed recipes are presented together with information on cooking techniques, advice on microwave cooking, and a dictionary of herbs and spices.
Good Housekeeping Magazine, Good Housekeeping, 2001
10
The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of ...
Written by internationally renowned specialists, this book brings together many years of practical experience in the care of hundreds of renowned historic houses and their collections *Expanded and beautifully illustrated, covering objects ...
National Trust (Great Britain), 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSEKEEPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term housekeeping is used in the context of the following news items.
1
It's a summer of housekeeping | The ECM Post Review
It seems there is a lot of housekeeping to do this summer! As we prepare for the upcoming school year, there is much to share and much for ... «ECM Post Review, Jul 15»
2
A Field Day With Olivia Munn - Good Housekeeping
This article originally appeared in the August 2015 issue of Good Housekeeping. For more on Olivia Munn and her "best friend" and dog, ... «GoodHousekeeping.com, Jul 15»
3
Gila River Arena seeks to fill housekeeping, conversions, parking jobs
​Arena housekeepers assist in the execution of cleaning tasks including: restrooms, washing, waxing, dusting, polishing, burnishing and trash ... «YourWestValley.com, Jul 15»
4
New Castle named one of the most beautiful small towns in America
Good Housekeeping has chosen New Castle as one of its 50 Most Beautiful Small Towns in America. The magazine says this about the town: ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»
5
Housekeeping staff essential to the care team
Probably not Housekeeping – yet this department plays a vital role in patient and resident safety and infection control. As the group responsible ... «Millstone News, Jul 15»
6
Pavlakis: It's a Matter of Proper Housekeeping
Panos Pavlakis has told bcfc.com that running a club like a business, and not being a football man, has enabled him to steer the club in the ... «Vitalfootball, Jul 15»
7
Traveler Housekeeping: Missing Forums And Parkipedia
Due to a technical glitch in the transition to the new site, the forums in the membership area have vanished. We are working to bring them back, ... «National Parks Traveler, Jul 15»
8
A little housekeeping: I'm off until Monday, July 20
You may notice fewer posts over the comings days. We are embarking on our big road trip to Acadia, Maine. I'll be back (hopefully mentally ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
9
Atlanta Housekeeping Company EMJ Cleaning Extends Services to …
EMJ Cleaning Services, an Atlanta housekeeping and maid company, encourages real estate agents and those buying, selling or renting a ... «PR Web, Jul 15»
10
French Tech Company Promises Housekeeping Robot
PARIS (CBSDC) – Looking like a cross between Wall-e and R2D2, Buddy the robot could soon become part of your family, if a French company ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»

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