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Meaning of "housewifely" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOUSEWIFELY

housewifely  [ˈhaʊsˌwaɪflɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOUSEWIFELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Housewifely is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HOUSEWIFELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of housewifely in the English dictionary

The definition of housewifely in the dictionary is prudent and neat; domestic.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOUSEWIFELY


beautifully
ˈbjuːtɪflɪ
Chifley
ˈtʃɪflɪ
fishwifely
ˈfɪʃˌwaɪflɪ
rifely
ˈraɪflɪ
safely
ˈseɪflɪ
sniffly
ˈsnɪflɪ
stiffly
ˈstɪflɪ
unbeautifully
ʌnˈbjuːtɪflɪ
unsafely
ʌnˈseɪflɪ
unwifely
ʌnˈwaɪflɪ
wifely
ˈwaɪflɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOUSEWIFELY

housemother
houseparent
houseperson
houser
houseroom
Houses of Parliament
housesitting
housetop
housewares
housewife
housewifeliness
housewifery
housewifeship
housewifeskep
housewifey
housewives
housework
houseworker
housey
housey-housey

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOUSEWIFELY

absolutely
approximately
barely
closely
completely
definitely
effectively
entirely
extremely
immediately
likely
lonely
lovely
privately
relatively
respectively
separately
solely
surely
unfortunately

Synonyms and antonyms of housewifely in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «housewifely» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOUSEWIFELY

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

Translator English - Chinese

井然有序
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ama de casa
570 millions of speakers

English

housewifely
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

housewifely
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

домовитый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

housewifely
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গৃহিস্থালিসংক্রান্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ménagère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berumah tangga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hausfraulich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

主婦の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

housewifely
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Housewifely
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nội trợ giỏi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

housewifely
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गृहिणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

en hanımına ait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

casalinghe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

housewifely
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

домовитий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gospodăresc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

housewifely
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

housewifely
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

husmoderlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

housewifely
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of housewifely

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEWIFELY»

The term «housewifely» is normally little used and occupies the 149.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEWIFELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «housewifely» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «housewifely» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSEWIFELY»

Discover the use of housewifely in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to housewifely and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Doctor's recreation series
Housewifely. Physic. ODD husewife provides, ere a sickness do come. Of sundry good things in her house to have some. od AQUA COMPOSiTA, and vinegar tart. Rose-water, and treacle, to comfort thine heart. Cold herbs in her garden, ...
‎1904
2
The Doctor's window
Housewifely. Physic. SOOD husewife provides, ere a sickness do come. Of sundry good things in her house to have some. Good aqua composita, and vinegar tart, Rose-water, and treacle, to comfort thine heart. Cold herbs in her garden, ...
‎1897
3
The Doctor's Window: Poems by the Doctor, for the Doctor, ...
Housewifely. Physic. SOOD husewife provides, ere a sickness do come, Of sundry good things in her house to have some. Good aqua composita, and vinegar tart. Rose-water, and treacle, to comfort thine heart. Cold herbs in her garden, ...
Ina Russelle Warren, 1897
4
The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a ...
Just. Enough. Accidental. Housewifely. Disclaimers. Putting. together a guide like this takes lots of trial and error and coffee and libations. It also made me realize that not everything in here may work exactly the same for each of you, nor ...
Julie Edelman, 2008
5
The Accidental Housewife
JULIE EDELMAN is a well-known lifestyle reporter who regularly shares her accidental housewifely wit and wisdom on ABC's The View and has appeared on CBS's The Early Show, NBC's Early Today, WB, Fox, and The Food Network as well ...
Julie Edelman, 2006
6
Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac
For the many public figures advocating a return to “traditional” housewifely roles, women's use of the pills seemed natural and unremarkable. The wonder-drug marketing machine thus worked with, rather than against, proscriptive ideas of ...
David Herzberg, 2010
7
The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical ...
In the bourgeois tradition, women's primary social role is a housewifely one, a role that involves, among other things, a competence in domestic consumption. It follows then that postwar melodrama, insofar as it promoted familial and thus ...
Victoria De Grazia, Ellen Furlough, 1996
8
Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories
Housewifely. Arts. I. am my own housewife, my own breadwinner. I make lunches and change lightbulbs. I kiss bruises and kill copperheads from the backyard creek with a steel hoe. I change sheets and the oil in my car. I can make a piecrust ...
Megan Mayhew Bergman, 2012
9
The Best American Short Stories 2011: The Best American Series
Housewifely. Arts. from One Story I am my own housewife, my own breadwinner. I make lunches and change light bulbs. I kiss bruises and kill copperheads from the backyard creek with a steel hoe. I change sheets and the oil in my car.
Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor, 2011
10
The Home-maker: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
HOUSEWIFELY. BITS. DIVERS. DESSERTS. BEGOTTEN. OF. BERRIES. CHOICE RECIPES. CORRESPONDENCE. THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF THE ELSTOW DRAWING. If a tablespoonful of kerosene is put into four quarts of tepid water, ...
Marion Harland, Jane Cunningham Croly, 1890

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSEWIFELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term housewifely is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Living the Dream in France: French farmers' market provides the …
As I make my way around the stalls, squeezing and sniffing the fruit in a housewifely way, I spot my husband standing by a wine stall, delicately ... «Blackmore Vale Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Boy, was I wrong
From one object in a room to another, housewifely care weaves the ties that unite a very ancient past to the new epoch. The housewife ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
3
Bourne Footlights took me on a brief trip to Italy
... the cloths chosen seeming to add to our impression of the different characters and underline the ladies' downtrodden, housewifely personas. «Spalding Guardian, Jun 15»
4
Jhumpa Lahiri's new book is about being reinvented through …
It makes me think of manual, housewifely labour. One of the best translators we had in Italy, Angelo Morino, who promoted many unknown ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
5
Stepping out in the sun can be MORE dangerous than you think
Is this a ploy to keep the over 50s in their kitchens and stuck to their cooking pots doing something housewifely while the rest of the youngsters ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
6
'The Brand New Testament': Cannes Review
The comedy gets its steam back in the final Wiz of Oz scenes when Ea's housewifely mother sets aside her embroidery and vacuum cleaner to ... «Hollywood Reporter, May 15»
7
Page H. Onorato: Cookbook offers old friend in the kitchen today
She had spent her adult years looking after her husband and two children, doing housewifely things as well as entertaining at luncheon and ... «Seacoastonline.com, May 15»
8
Top 10 facts about walking
The average housewife has been calculated to walk 594 miles a year in the course of her housewifely duties. Bastille Day French Revolution ... «Express.co.uk, May 15»
9
Bernard Ingham: Cameron wins...now save us from the economists
You will recall that 364 of the blighters wrote to The Times warning Thatcher that her housewifely economics would wreck the country. «Yorkshire Post, May 15»
10
Bravo's NYC Real Housewives Season 7: Crystal Fishbowl Reflections
But old angers and alcohol proffered at every turn degenerate nearly every Housewifely trip or gathering - we imbibers have a very real lesson ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»

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