WOMAN OF THE HOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woman of the house mean? 

• WOMAN OF THE HOUSE (noun)
  The noun WOMAN OF THE HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income

  Familiarity information: WOMAN OF THE HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOMAN OF THE HOUSE (noun)

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 ("woman of the house" is a kind of...):

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

 Context examples 

While I was yet in the full enjoyment of it, the old woman of the house said to the Master: Have you got your flute with you?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at the cottage of her lover.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The coach jolts, I wake with a start, and the flute has come back again, and the Master at Salem House is sitting with his legs crossed, playing it dolefully, while the old woman of the house looks on delighted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I dreamed, I thought, that once while he was blowing into this dismal flute, the old woman of the house, who had gone nearer and nearer to him in her ecstatic admiration, leaned over the back of his chair and gave him an affectionate squeeze round the neck, which stopped his playing for a moment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)