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PRONUNCIATION OF HUSWIFE

huswife  [ˈhʌsɪf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUSWIFE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Huswife 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 HUSWIFE 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUSWIFE


hussif
ˈhʌsɪf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUSWIFE

husklike
husky
huso
huss
Hussain
hussar
Hussein
Husserl
hussies
hussif
Hussism
Hussite
Hussitism
hussy
hustings
hustle
hustle up
hustler
Huston
hut

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUSWIFE

alewife
all the world and his wife
common-law wife
Dutch wife
ex-wife
farmwife
fishwife
goodwife
gudewife
housewife
kalewife
midwife
oldwife
seawife
state-certified midwife
Stepford wife
superwife
take to wife
trophy wife
wife

Synonyms and antonyms of huswife in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «huswife» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUSWIFE

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

Translator English - Chinese

huswife
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Huswife
570 millions of speakers

English

huswife
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

huswife
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

huswife
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

huswife
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Huswife
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

huswife
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Huswife
220 millions of speakers

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Suami
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Huswife
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

huswife
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

huswife
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Husband
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

huswife
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

huswife
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हुश्मि
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

huswife
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Huswife
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

huswife
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

huswife
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

huswife
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Huswife
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

huswife
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

huswife
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

huswife
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of huswife

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUSWIFE»

The term «huswife» is used very little and occupies the 154.176 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUSWIFE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUSWIFE»

Discover the use of huswife in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to huswife and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Select Works of the British Poets: From Chaucer to Jonson, ...
A daily good lesson, of huswife indeed, Is God to remember, the better to speed. 2. Another good lesson, of huswifery thought, Is huswife with husband to live as she ought. Wife comely, no grief, Man out, huswife chief. 3. Though tricksy to sec  ...
Robert Southey, 1831
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Select Works of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, ...
I. A daily good lesson, of huswife indeed, ' Is God to remember, the better to speed. '2. Another good lesson, of huswifery thought, Is huswife with husband to live as she ought. “'ife comely, no grief, Man out, huswife chief. 8. Though tricksy to ...
Robert Southey, Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke), Stephen Hawes, 1831
3
A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, on the Most ...
Where husband and husbandry joyneth with these, There wealthinesse gotten is holden with ease. 2 The name of a huswife what is it to say ? The wife of the house, to the husband a stay : If huswife doth that, as belongeth to hur, If husband be ...
Sir Walter Scott, Baron John Somers Somers, 1810
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A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on the Most ...
Where husband and husbandry joyneth with these, There wealthinesse gotten is holden with ease. 2 The name of a huswife what is it to say ? The wife of the house, to the husband a stay : If huswife doth that, as belongeth to hur, If husband be ...
Sir Walter Scott, 1810
5
Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly ...
The woman the name of a huswife doth win, By keeping her house, and of doings therein ; And she that with husband will quietly dwell, Must think on this lesson, and follow it well. 1 INSTRUCTIONS TO HUSWIFERY. Serve God is the first; ...
Thomas Tusser, Henry Master White, 1848
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Five hundred pointes of good husbandrie
'72. if A description of Huswife and szswgfine. I F huswife doth huswiferie challenge that name, of huswil'erie huswii'e doth likewise the same, Where husband and hnsbandrie ioineth with thease, there wealthines gotten is holden with ease. z ...
T. Tusser
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Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the ...
A daily good lesson, of huswife indeed, Is God to remember, the better to speed . 2. Another good lesson, of huswifery thought, Is huswife with husband to live as she ought. Wife comely, no grief, Man Out, huswife chief. 5. Though tricksy (b c) ...
Thomas Tusser, William Fordyce Mavor, 1812
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Country Gentleman
Our Third and Last Evening with Tuasert With this chapter we close our extract*. The verses included in it, are taken from the " Book of Huswifery," from " Instructions " to which, we quote the following : Wife comely, no grief, Man out, huswife ...
‎1854
9
The Country Gentleman
Our Third and Last Evening with Tusser. With this chapter we close our extracts. The reives included in it, are taken from the M Book of Huswife- ry," from 11 Instructions" to which, we quote the following : Wife comely, no grief, Man out, huswife ...
‎1854
10
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
It is seated on the river Ow, on the German O- cean, and is subject to the duke of Holstein Got- t,orp. Lon. 9. 8. E. Lat. 54. 31. N. * HUSWIFE, n.s. [corrupted from housewife.] 1. A bad manager; a sorry woman. It is common to use housewife in a  ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUSWIFE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term huswife is used in the context of the following news items.
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Don't Forget to Butter Your Beer
He swiped his recipe from an even earlier cookbook, "The Good Huswife's Handmaide for the Kitchen," of 1594, by Thomas Dawson. Huswives ... «Courthouse News Service, Mar 15»
2
All quiet on the quilt front? Not yet
Just the other day someone came in with an 1850s huswife, which is a sewing roll. We'd never seen one like it before." Some of the large quilts ... «The Press, York, Jan 15»
3
Gentlemen, I'm here to mansplain Dickens … okay?
... 20th century, I later cited Gervase Markham's The English Huswife (1615), which provides the aspiring-to-be-good housewife with counsel on ... «The Globe and Mail, Jan 15»
4
Cookie baking weather is here
A cookie. A cookbook printed in 1596, “Best Huswife's Jewel” shows a recipe for a square cookie enriched with egg yolks and spices, baked on ... «Napa Valley Register, Sep 14»
5
A fat-less sponge: easy to make and demands to be eaten at once
The first recorded reference to this type of cake appeared in a book by Gervase Markham in 1615: The English Huswife Containing the Inward ... «Mid Devon Gazette, Sep 14»
6
Puddings: how they have changed through history
Steamed puddings, bread puddings and rice puddings are all listed in one of the earliest recipe books: The English Huswife, Containing the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
7
Fancy's Children
It hangs like flax on a distaff [straw on a stick], and I hope to see a huswife take thee between her legs and spin it off. I'm fairly sure that reading ... «Wall Street Journal, Sep 13»
8
Mmmm Squishy: Today is National Sponge Cake Day!
... author, Gervase Markham, wrote The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman. «Foodbeat, Aug 13»
9
The joy of cake, the simple life of a charity boss, and the 'jokes' of …
I've never eaten a Lamington, alas, but to quote Gervase Markham, author of The English Huswife of 1613, when making cakes “a little Cream ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»
10
Novels about the Internet can still be compelling
... my instinct is that this is showing off, but maybe it's no different from Jane Austen mentioning a fortepiano and a huswife on the same page.”. «Salon, Jan 13»

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