Homemaker vs Maker - What's the difference?
homemaker | maker | Derived terms |
(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
Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
(usually, capitalized and preceded by the) God.
A poet.
* 2000 , , The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 9:
(obsolete, legal) Someone who signs a cheque or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.
Maker is a derived term of homemaker.
As nouns the difference between homemaker and maker
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 maker is someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.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 termsmaker
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is refreshing to read how makers find great allies in the past to help them tackle the present. It helps us to see that literature is a conversation across boundaries of nation, century and language.
