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Meaning of "housewifery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOUSEWIFERY

housewifery  [ˈhaʊsˌwɪfərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOUSEWIFERY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Housewifery 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 HOUSEWIFERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Housewife

A housewife is a woman whose main occupation is running or managing the family's home—caring for and educating her children, cooking and storing food, buying goods the family needs in day-to-day life, cleaning and maintaining the home, making clothes for the family, etc.—and who is generally not employed outside the home. Merriam Webster describes a housewife as a married woman who is in charge of her household. The term may sometimes be used in contrast to a career woman.

Definition of housewifery in the English dictionary

The definition of housewifery in the dictionary is the running of a household; housekeeping.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOUSEWIFERY


chaffery
ˈtʃæfərɪ
chiefery
ˈtʃiːfərɪ
leafery
ˈliːfərɪ
midwifery
ˈmɪdˌwɪfərɪ
periphery
pəˈrɪfərɪ
pilfery
ˈpɪlfərɪ
plerophory
pliːˈrɒfərɪ
puffery
ˈpʌfərɪ
spoofery
ˈspuːfərɪ
sulfury
ˈsʌlfərɪ
sulphury
ˈsʌlfərɪ
wafery
ˈweɪfərɪ
werewolfery
ˈwɛəˌwʊlfərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOUSEWIFERY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOUSEWIFERY

bakery
battery
celery
delivery
discovery
eatery
every
gallery
grocery
imagery
jewellery
machinery
mystery
nursery
photo gallery
query
recovery
special-delivery
surgery
very

Synonyms and antonyms of housewifery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «housewifery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOUSEWIFERY

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

Translator English - Chinese

家政
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ama de casa
570 millions of speakers

English

housewifery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घर का
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

housewifery
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Домоводство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

housewifery
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গৃহিণীর কর্তব্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ménagère
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumah tangga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

housewifery
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

家政
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

housewifery
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Housewifery
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gia chánh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

housewifery
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गृहिणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ev idaresi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

housewifery
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gospodyń domowych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

домоведення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

housewifery
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

housewifery
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huishoudelijk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

housewifery
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

housewifery
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of housewifery

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEWIFERY»

The term «housewifery» is normally little used and occupies the 122.545 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSEWIFERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «housewifery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «housewifery» 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 housewifery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSEWIFERY»

Discover the use of housewifery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to housewifery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
With simple, straight-forward recipes based on bountiful 19th century ingredients such as grouse, oysters, venison, and vegetables, this book is treasure for modern cooks as well.
Marion Harland, 2008
2
Early American Cookery, Or, Ye Gentlewoman's Housewifery: ...
Margaret Huntington Hooker, in 1895, assembled a fine collection of colonial cooking recipes from all over New England, adding her own illustrations. This edition preserves the best of her work.
‎1981
3
Ye Gentlewoman's Housewifery - Containing Scarce, Curious ...
This early works on Ye gentlewoman's Housewifery is an absorbing collection of recipes and tips with much of the information still useful and practical today.
Margaret Huntington Hooker, 2009
4
Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and ...
This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labor out of the fields and into the home.
Joanna Bourke, 1993
5
Housewifery Housewifery: A Manual and Textbook of Practical ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Lydia Ray Balderston, 2010
6
Women in Early America: Struggle, Survival, and Freedom in a ...
Because so much of this information was traditionally passed from mother to daughter, these women were often cut off from the customary source for learning housewifery skills. Most of them were unprepared for life in crude frontier conditions, ...
Dorothy A. Mays, 2004
7
Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
47 Keith Snell has drawn attention to the loose way in which terms like ' housewifery' were used, commenting howterminological indiscrimination in indentures was between 'servant', 'servant common in husbandry', 'house servant ','house ...
Bridget Hill, 2005
8
Apprenticeship In England, 1600-1914
unacceptable servants.77 However, in Warwickshire (1700–1834) 22 per cent of housewifery apprentices went to masters whose occupations were all reasonably prosperous, andincludedinhabitants such as drapers, surgeons and chandlers.
Joan Lane, 2005
9
The New Family ?
TRANSFORMING. HOUSEWIFERY: DISPOSITIONS,. PRACTICES. AND. TECHNOLOGIES. Elizabeth. B. Silva. The separate location of the genders that was the basis of the breadwinner and homemaker model of the family has increasingly ...
Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Carol Smart, 1999
10
Women and Property: In Early Modern England
The only sample form for an apprenticeship indenture included in George Meriton's A Guide for Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor uses the example of a girl placed with a widow to learn housewifery.22 (The title of housewife ...
Amy Louise Erickson, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSEWIFERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term housewifery is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ashley Davies: The rural dream of farmers' markets - The Scotsman
... probably also a correlation between the success of mid-range daily markets and higher levels of, for want of a better word, housewifery. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
2
Monday's best TV
Patient, practical Debbie (Martha Howe-Douglas) continues to straddle two lives: mundane housewifery in Birmingham and troubleshooting in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
World Cinema: Battle of the exes
Now, Walter is so afraid that his star reporter is going to vanish into nondescript housewifery that he tries to dissuade her thus: “What's the use ... «mydigitalfc.com, Jul 15»
4
Review: Beck rolls in for Old West adventure at the Barbican
... the roles of pseudo-passengers, musing on the frustrations of housewifery, technology and the business class priorities of modern transport. «Islington Gazette, Jul 15»
5
Women of Kosovo: a mirage of freedom and equality
... patriarchal law, with tools and activities associated with housewifery. In the international arena, the 2014 film Three Windows and a Hanging, ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
6
HomeWhat Can Women of the Upper East Side Teach Us About …
... Avenue” is a quasi-anthropological tell-all about navigating the world of housewifery on Manhattan's Upper East Side and its discontents. «Jewish Daily Forward, Jun 15»
7
VIDEO: Take a look inside the old Eastern Primary School as it's …
... cast iron range cooker which was historically used by pupils in the department of laundry, cookery and housewifery on the building's top floor. «Evening Telegraph, Jun 15»
8
'Mad Men' Rewind: A Tony-Inspired Musical Commentary
Just as she is about to “find herself,” go back to university, and have a life outside of housewifery, she learns she has terminal cancer. But within ... «Blogcritics, Jun 15»
9
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Centre and laundry 'one and the same'
... underwent some degree of training in the laundries, in addition to other tasks of 'housewifery', that is cookery classes and domestic science”. «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
10
A window into women's experiences in Kosovo
... text of women's oppression in Kosovo, at its own game by using the activities associated with stereotypical housewifery – cooking. Altogether ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Housewifery [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/housewifery>. Apr 2024 ».
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