homemaker
nounEtymology From home + maker.
1
Australia, US A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.
- Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:
- Derived terms
- displaced homemaker, nonhomemaker
- Related terms
- homemaking, farmwife, househusband, housespouse, housewife