I would hate to become just a housewife.
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Housewife
//ˈhaʊs.waɪf//
Synonyms for "housewife" (25 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriescapable of
7 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
15 entriesderived from
2 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
142 translations across 79 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- amvisë noun (female head of household)
Arabic
3 entries- رَبَّة أُسْرَة noun (female head of household)
- رَبَّة بَيْت noun (female head of household)
- رَبَّة مَنْزِل noun (female head of household)
Armenian
2 entries- տանտիկին noun (female head of household)
- տնային տնտեսուհի noun (female head of household)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- evdar qadın noun (female head of household)
Bashkir
1 entries- хужабикә noun (female head of household)
Basque
1 entries- etxekoandre noun (female head of household)
Belarusian
1 entries- ха́тняя гаспады́ня noun (female head of household)
Bengali
3 entries- গৃহবধূ noun (female head of household)
- গৃহিণী noun (female head of household)
- ঘরণী noun (female head of household)
Bulgarian
2 entries- домаки́ня noun (female head of household)
- къ́щница noun (female head of household)
Burmese
1 entries- အိမ်ရှင်မ noun (female head of household)
Catalan
1 entries- mestressa de casa noun (female head of household)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کابان noun (female head of household)
Chinese
2 entries- 主婦 /主妇 noun (female head of household)
- 家庭主婦 /家庭主妇 noun (female head of household)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 主婦 /主妇 noun (female head of household)
- 住家婆 noun (female head of household)
- 家庭主婦 /家庭主妇 noun (female head of household)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 主婦 /主妇 noun (female head of household)
- 家庭主婦 /家庭主妇 noun (female head of household)
- 家庭婦女 /家庭妇女 noun (female head of household)
- 縫紉袋 /缝纫袋 noun (case for materials used in sewing)
Chukchi
1 entries- гыпиԓьын noun (female head of household)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- ev bikesi noun (female head of household)
Czech
2 entries- hospodyňka noun (female head of household)
- žena v domácnosti noun (female head of household)
Danish
1 entries- husmor noun (female head of household)
Dutch
1 entries- huisvrouw noun (female head of household)
Esperanto
2 entries- domestrino noun (female head of household)
- dommastrino noun (female head of household)
Estonian
1 entries- koduperenaine noun (female head of household)
Faroese
3 entries- húsfrú noun (female head of household)
- húsfrúgv noun (female head of household)
- matmóðir noun (female head of household)
Finnish
4 entries- emäntä noun (female head of household)
- kotirouva noun (female head of household)
- kotiäiti noun (female head of household)
- käsityölaukku noun (case for materials used in sewing)
French
4 entries- boîte à ouvrage noun (case for materials used in sewing)
- femme au foyer noun (female head of household)
- garce noun (female head of household)
- maîtresse de maison noun (female head of household)
Georgian
1 entries- დიასახლისი noun (female head of household)
German
2 entries- Hausfrau noun (female head of household)
- Huusfrau noun (female head of household)
Greek
2 entries- νοικοκυρά noun (female head of household)
- οικοδέσποινα noun (female head of household)
Hebrew
1 entries- עֲקֶרֶת בַּיִת noun (female head of household)
Hindi
3 entries- गृहिणी noun (female head of household)
- घरनी noun (female head of household)
- घरवाली noun (female head of household)
Hungarian
3 entries- háziasszony noun (female head of household)
- varródoboz noun (case for materials used in sewing)
- varrókészlet noun (case for materials used in sewing)
Icelandic
3 entries- húsfrú noun (female head of household)
- húsmóðir noun (female head of household)
- húsmóðir noun (case for materials used in sewing)
Indonesian
3 entries- ibu rumah tangga noun (female head of household)
- kotak jahit noun (case for materials used in sewing)
- suri rumah noun (female head of household)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- خانُمِ خانِه noun (female head of household)
- خانِهدار noun (female head of household)
- زَنِ خانِهدار noun (female head of household)
- کَدْبانو noun (female head of household)
Irish
1 entries- bean tí noun (female head of household)
Italian
4 entries- casalinga noun (female head of household)
- donna di casa noun (female head of household)
- massaia noun (female head of household)
- padrona di casa noun (female head of household)
Japanese
1 entries- 主婦 noun (female head of household)
Kazakh
1 entries- үй шаруасындағы әйел noun (female head of household)
Khmer
2 entries- គេហសាមិនី noun (female head of household)
- ស្រីមេផ្ទះ noun (female head of household)
Korean
1 entries- 주부 noun (female head of household)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- үй кожойкеси noun (female head of household)
- үй ээси noun (female head of household)
Lao
1 entries- ແມ່ເຮືອນ noun (female head of household)
Latin
1 entries- domiseda noun (female head of household)
Latvian
1 entries- mājsaimniece noun (female head of household)
Lithuanian
1 entries- šeimininkė noun (female head of household)
Macedonian
1 entries- дома́ќинка noun (female head of household)
Malay
1 entries- suri rumah noun (female head of household)
Maltese
1 entries- mara tad-dar noun (female head of household)
Mongolian
1 entries- гэрийн эзэгтэй noun (female head of household)
Norman
1 entries- femme dé mênage noun (female head of household)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- bermalî noun (female head of household)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- husmor noun (female head of household)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- husmor noun (female head of household)
Pashto
1 entries- ماتو noun (female head of household)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Husfru noun (female head of household)
Polish
2 entries- gospodyni domowa noun (female head of household)
- pani domu noun (female head of household)
Portuguese
2 entries- caixa de costura noun (case for materials used in sewing)
- dona de casa noun (female head of household)
Romanian
2 entries- casnică noun (female head of household)
- gospodină noun (female head of household)
Russian
1 entries- домохозя́йка noun (female head of household)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bean-taighe noun (female head of household)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- domàćica noun (female head of household)
- kȕćanica noun (female head of household)
- дома̀ћица noun (female head of household)
- ку̏ћаница noun (female head of household)
Slovak
1 entries- gazdiná noun (female head of household)
Slovene
1 entries- gospodinja noun (female head of household)
Spanish
3 entries- ama de casa noun (female head of household)
- mujer de gobierno (disused) noun (female head of household)
- mujer de su casa noun (female head of household)
Swedish
3 entries- hemmafru noun (female head of household)
- husfru noun (female head of household)
- husmor noun (female head of household)
Tagalog
1 entries- maybahay noun (female head of household)
Tajik
3 entries- зани хонадор noun (female head of household)
- соҳибаи хона noun (female head of household)
- соҳибхоназан noun (female head of household)
Tatar
1 entries- хуҗабикә noun (female head of household)
Thai
1 entries- แม่บ้าน noun (female head of household)
Turkish
3 entries- ev hanımı noun (female head of household)
- ev kadını noun (female head of household)
- karı noun (female head of household)
Turkmen
3 entries- öy bikesi noun (female head of household)
- öý hojalykçy noun (female head of household)
- öý hojalykçy aýal noun (female head of household)
Ukrainian
1 entries- домогоспода́рка noun (female head of household)
Urdu
1 entries- گَھر والی noun (female head of household)
Uyghur
3 entries- ئائىلە ئايالى noun (female head of household)
- ئايال خوجايىن noun (female head of household)
- خوجايىن ئايال noun (female head of household)
Uzbek
1 entries- uy bekasi noun (female head of household)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bà nội trợ noun (female head of household)
Volapük
1 entries- domaläd noun (female head of household)
Welsh
2 entries- gwraig tŷ noun (female head of household)
- gwraig y tŷ noun (female head of household)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַלעבאָסטע noun (female head of household)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
This is a great time-saving gadget for the housewife.
Source: tatoeba (55586)
The worried housewife heard the telephone ring and quickly picked up the receiver.
Source: tatoeba (67123)
"Oh, mother," said the housewife, breaking into bitter tears.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.