housewife

/hous-wahyf or, usually, huhz-if for 2/US // ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf or, usually, ˈhʌz ɪf for 2 //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf) //

家庭主妇,主妇,家庭主婦,家庭妇女

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural house·wives [hous-wahyvz]. /ˈhaʊsˌwaɪvz/.
- : Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- : British. a sewing box; a small case or box for needles, thread, etc.

1
house·wifed, house·wif·ing.
- : Archaic. to manage with efficiency and economy, as a household.

nounwife

Forms: housewives

Synonyms

As the needs and circumstances of housewives shifted, so too did the recipe format.
At the dawn of the VHS boom, she sees potential in teaching a session for fellow housewives to do at home.
In the scant three years between her arrest and her execution, this impoverished housewife moved from obscurity to internationally known figure of controversy.
A housewife pops some bread into a toaster, and the machine—made by Stark Industries—begins to beep menacingly.
Had it not been for state institutions established by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, her primary school teacher father and housewife mother would not have been able to send her to university.
Jones, it should be said, is also aces as the unfulfilled housewife (a role she plays very convincingly on Mad Men).
Right back into that housewife position I was in in the first place.
He simply glanced up at the author of So Big and Show Boat and then wrote “Housewife.”
The 37-year-old was raised in a village outside of Kiev by his mother, a housewife, and his father, a construction manager.
On a cool December evening in 2011, an Egyptian housewife woke up screaming in her bed.
More than once that day was the good housewife tempted to send the three visiting Babcocks home, but was too courteous to do so.

/hous-wahyf or, usually, huhz-if for 2/US // ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf or, usually, ˈhʌz ɪf for 2 //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌwaɪf) //

家庭主妇,主妇,家庭主婦,家庭妇女

n.名词 noun

1
plural house·wives [hous-wahyvz]. /ˈhaʊsˌwaɪvz/.
- : Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- : British. a sewing box; a small case or box for needles, thread, etc.

1
house·wifed, house·wif·ing.
- : Archaic. to manage with efficiency and economy, as a household.

nounwife

Forms: housewives

Synonyms

As the needs and circumstances of housewives shifted, so too did the recipe format.
At the dawn of the VHS boom, she sees potential in teaching a session for fellow housewives to do at home.
In the scant three years between her arrest and her execution, this impoverished housewife moved from obscurity to internationally known figure of controversy.
A housewife pops some bread into a toaster, and the machine—made by Stark Industries—begins to beep menacingly.
Had it not been for state institutions established by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, her primary school teacher father and housewife mother would not have been able to send her to university.
Jones, it should be said, is also aces as the unfulfilled housewife (a role she plays very convincingly on Mad Men).
Right back into that housewife position I was in in the first place.
He simply glanced up at the author of So Big and Show Boat and then wrote “Housewife.”
The 37-year-old was raised in a village outside of Kiev by his mother, a housewife, and his father, a construction manager.
On a cool December evening in 2011, an Egyptian housewife woke up screaming in her bed.
More than once that day was the good housewife tempted to send the three visiting Babcocks home, but was too courteous to do so.