homemaker

[ hohm-mey-ker ]

noun

1. a person who manages the household of their own family, especially as a principal occupation.
2. a person employed to manage a household and do household chores for others, as for the sick or elderly.

homemaker

/ ˈhəʊmˌmeɪkə /

noun

1. a person, esp a housewife, who manages a home
2. a social worker who manages a household during the incapacity of the housewife

Sensitive Note

See housewife.

Derived Forms

• ˈhomeˌmaking, nounadjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of homemaker¹

First recorded in 1885–90; home + maker

Example Sentences

His father ran a chain of hat stores, and his mother was a homemaker.

From Washington Post

His father worked in a bottle factory, and his mother was a homemaker.

From Washington Post

His father was a shoe salesman, and his mother was a homemaker who was born in Scotland while her own mother was en route to the United States, immigrating from what is now Ukraine.

From Washington Post

His father was a streetcar operator, and his mother was a homemaker.

From Washington Post

Medieval cooks and homemakers were often noted as burning their fires constantly, with a never-ending pot of soup at the ready.

From Popular-Science

There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.

From The Daily Beast

Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, where his father made $7,000 a year working for the post office, and his mother was a homemaker.

From The Daily Beast

Her father was a sociology and education professor at UCLA; her mother was “a homemaker with creative tendencies.”

From The Daily Beast

She was a homemaker for 13 years, until all the last child was in school full-time, then plunged into law.

From The Daily Beast

Nezar too was a homemaker in Homs who arrived in Jordan last year.

From The Daily Beast

It is a problem usually very difficult of solution by the homemaker of small means.

From Project Gutenberg

But what is the homemaker of limited means, who must have some help, to do under present conditions?

From Project Gutenberg

It may seem that, in this article, I am more concerned for the “hired help” than the homemaker for whom I am ostensibly writing.

From Project Gutenberg

No land offers better or freer social conditions to the homemaker.

From Project Gutenberg

The good wife and homemaker says to her children, "Where thou goest, I will go."

From Project Gutenberg