Our gardener Tom and the charwoman Mary will get married in May.
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Charwoman
Synonyms for "charwoman" (18 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (5)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (9)
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37 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հավաքարարուհի noun (cleaning lady)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 女保洁員 noun (cleaning lady)
- 女清潔工 /女清洁工 noun (cleaning lady)
- 家政女工 noun (cleaning lady)
- 打雜女工 /打杂女工 noun (cleaning lady)
Danish
1 entries- rengøringsdame noun (cleaning lady)
Dutch
3 entries- meid noun (cleaning lady)
- poetsvrouw noun (cleaning lady)
- schoonmaakster noun (cleaning lady)
Estonian
1 entries- passija noun (cleaning lady)
Finnish
2 entries- kotiapulainen noun (cleaning lady)
- siivooja noun (cleaning lady)
French
4 entries- femme de journée noun (cleaning lady)
- femme de ménage noun (cleaning lady)
- femme de service noun (cleaning lady)
- nettoyeuse noun (cleaning lady)
German
1 entries- Putzfrau noun (cleaning lady)
Hebrew
1 entries- מנקה noun (cleaning lady)
Hungarian
1 entries- takarítónő noun (cleaning lady)
Japanese
2 entries- 家政婦 noun (cleaning lady)
- 掃除婦 noun (cleaning lady)
Korean
2 entries- 가정부 noun (cleaning lady)
- 소제부 noun (cleaning lady)
Macedonian
1 entries- измеќарка noun (cleaning lady)
Norwegian
1 entries- vaskedame noun (cleaning lady)
Polish
1 entries- sprzątaczka noun (cleaning lady)
Portuguese
2 entries- arrumadeira noun (cleaning lady)
- empregada noun (cleaning lady)
Romanian
1 entries- femeie de serviciu noun (cleaning lady)
Russian
3 entries- домрабо́тница noun (cleaning lady)
- подёнщица noun (cleaning lady)
- убо́рщица noun (cleaning lady)
Spanish
1 entries- mujer de la limpieza noun (cleaning lady)
Swedish
2 entries- hembiträde noun (cleaning lady)
- städerska noun (cleaning lady)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]
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Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
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This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
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