housewife

What does housewife mean?

housewife means "a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income".

How many syllables are in housewife?

housewife has 2 syllables: house-wife. The stress falls on "house". In IPA it is /ˈhaʊˌswaɪf/.

What is another word for housewife?

Close synonyms include homemaker, lady of the house, woman of the house. 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 housewife a common word?

housewife is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with housewife?

1 word rhymes with housewife. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for housewife come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.