as in wife
chiefly US
a person who does work at home and usually does not have another job outside the home
TV commercials often show happy homemakers.
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Recent Examples of homemaker
These are women who embraces a 1950s-style homemaker lifestyle replete with beautiful frocks, focusing on domestic duties like cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing while their husband works.
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Gemma Allen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
In a commencement address to a conservative Catholic college earlier this year, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker even advised the female graduates in his audience to forgo careers altogether and focus on supporting their husbands as homemakers.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
His mother was a homemaker who suffered from mental illness; his father was a furniture salesman for Montgomery Ward.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
In trad wife videos, women are often shown only engaging in homemaker tasks.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for homemaker 
Gemma Allen, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
In a commencement address to a conservative Catholic college earlier this year, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker even advised the female graduates in his audience to forgo careers altogether and focus on supporting their husbands as homemakers.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
His mother was a homemaker who suffered from mental illness; his father was a furniture salesman for Montgomery Ward.
—Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
In trad wife videos, women are often shown only engaging in homemaker tasks.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for homemaker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homemaker
Noun
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The Die Hard actor remarried in 2009 and has two daughters with his wife, Emma Heming Willis.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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In addition to Courtney, Roker has two adult children — Leila and Nick — with his current wife, journalist Deborah Roberts.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Airing for eight seasons between 1964 and 1972, the fantastical series followed the daily adventures of a powerful witch who attempts to live as a typical suburban housewife and marry a mortal man.—
Kate Hogan,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025
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Nell is now a boho housewife who sells chutney at a farmers’ market, and her presence awakens old differences, emotional and professional.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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June fires her housekeeper rather than ask her to not eat fast food in her house.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Democrats, unions and liberal groups criticized him for his remarks against workplace protections such as the minimum wage and overtime rules, and conservative publications seized on Mr. Puzder’s employment of an undocumented immigrant as his housekeeper.—
Chris Cameron,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Homemaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homemaker. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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