housework

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
For, in spite of her nightly wanderings, her housework was always well and cleanly done before other girls were dressed--the morning milk fresh in the dairy, the step sanded, the fire lit and the scalding-pans warming over it.

View all »
Definitions (5)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun The tasks, such as cleaning and cooking, that are performed in housekeeping.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Marsha can't keep up with the housework, the baby and her full-time job. —  DVD Verdict
  • After answering questions about everything from sex to housework, the Facebook oracle pronounced the result: "Distant wife." —  The Patriot Ledger Home RSS
  • The work that women do in housework is the production of the human race and that means overwhelmingly the human workforce, the basic ingredient of all industry, all agriculture, all services, all profits and all wars. —  Indymedia Ireland
  • Sue Shellenbarger reported recently in the Wall Street Journal that today "children are spending a mere 24 minutes a day doing cleaning, laundry and other housework -- a 12 percent decline since 1997 and a 25 percent drop from 1981 levels." —  ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community
  • With working women still doing 70\% of the housework, there's a lot of room for conflict. —  Forbes.com: News
 

Tags

housework hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 61 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈhaʊswərk/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

acquiesce · nefariously · renew · mucopolysaccharidosis · misleading

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Im dichten Fichtendickicht sind dicke Fichten wichtig. · Häufungspunkte · superkalifragilistischexpiallegetisch · wub wub · merch