What does "homekeeping" mean?

Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”).

What is a synonym for "homekeeping"?

Common synonyms include: housekeeping.

Homekeeping

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun

1
Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”). uncountable

Adjective

1
Staying at home. not-comparable
"Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him."

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housekeeping

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"Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him."

Etymology

From home + keeping.

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