house husband

1. 1.

   a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income

   Synonymshousehusband

   Broaderhusband

Questions about house husband

What does house husband mean?

house husband means "a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income".

What is another word for house husband?

Close synonyms include househusband. 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 house husband a common word?

house husband 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.