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LADY OF THE HOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lady of the house mean?
• LADY OF THE HOUSE (noun)
The noun LADY OF THE HOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
Familiarity information: LADY OF THE HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
homemaker; housewife; lady of the house; woman of the house
Hypernyms ("lady of the house" is a kind of...):
married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)
Context examples
Was there any lady of the house?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But never in such a state of spirits, never in any thing like it; and it was with difficulty that she could summon enough of her usual self to be the attentive lady of the house, or even the attentive daughter.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
When they had paid their tribute of politeness by curtsying to the lady of the house, they were permitted to mingle in the crowd, and take their share of the heat and inconvenience, to which their arrival must necessarily add.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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