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Homemaker   /hˈoʊmmˌeɪkər/   Listen
Homemaker

noun
1.
A wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income.  Synonyms: housewife, lady of the house, woman of the house.






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"Homemaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... call her manners mighty comfortable ones," returned the young man. "She's a practical homemaker, that's what she is; and you're a—well, it's unintelligent of you to go on living alone, that's all, with that wrinkled map of Ireland for ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... found herself strongly attracted to Pearl. Pearl, the housekeeper, the homemaker, a child with a woman's responsibility, appealed to Mrs. Francis. She thought about Pearl ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung

... public land into the hands of a few men, and to the enormous waste caused by unrestricted grazing upon the open range. The recommendations of the Public Lands Commission are sound, for they are especially in the interest of the actual homemaker; and where the small home-maker can not at present utilize the land they provide that the Government shall keep control of it so that it may not be monopolized by a few men. The Congress has not yet acted upon these recommendations; but they are so just and proper, so essential to our ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... are also the best to look upon. It would be agreeable to say, further, that they cost least, but that would be misleading. This book fails to say not a few things that would be interesting but which wouldn't be of much real use to the homemaker, because ...
— The Complete Home • Various

... want a homemaker in this house as soon as may be. There has never been one since your mother died. I am tired of housekeepers. And I want to see your children at my knees before I die, Eric, and I'm ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery



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