What does home economics mean?

home economics means "theory and practice of homemaking".

What is another word for home economics?

Close synonyms include home ec, domestic science, household arts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home economics a common word?

home economics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

home economics — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
theory and practice of homemaking
Synonymshome ec domestic science household arts
Broadersocial science

Questions about home economics

What does home economics mean?: home economics means "theory and practice of homemaking".
What is another word for home economics?: Close synonyms include home ec, domestic science, household arts. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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