What is the difference between homemaker and housewife?
homemaker | housewife |
(US) A person who maintains the upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home.
* 1979 , Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self , page 233
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; – called also (hussy).
* 1852: Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II
Housewife is a hypernym of homemaker.
As nouns the difference between homemaker and housewife
is that homemaker is a person who maintains the upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home while housewife is the wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.As a verb housewife is
alternative form of lang=en.homemaker
English
(wikipedia homemaker)Noun
(en noun)- Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.
See also
* house husband * housewife English politically correct termshousewife
English
Noun
(housewives)- Woffington's housewife , made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world
