HOUSEWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housework mean? 

• HOUSEWORK (noun)
  The noun HOUSEWORK has 1 sense:

1. the work of cleaning and running a house

  Familiarity information: HOUSEWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The work of cleaning and running a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

housekeeping; housework

Hypernyms ("housework" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual is able to do housework.

(Do Housework, NCI Thesaurus)

She is a capital nurse, and you may trust the precious babies to her while you do more housework.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) are activities related to independent living and include preparing meals, managing money, shopping, doing housework, and using a telephone.

(ADL, NCI Dictionary)

Instrumental activities of daily living are activities related to independent living and include preparing meals, managing money, shopping, doing housework, and using a telephone.

(Activities of daily living, NCI Dictionary)

That his wife should do no more housework was an affront to his thrifty soul.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you get breathless doing housework?

(AQ20 - Get Breathless Doing Housework, NCI Thesaurus)

But the girl lived with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and the housework.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When her hands were not hard from the endless housework, they were swollen and red like boiled beef, what of the washing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)