(n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
(n.) A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy.
(n.) A hussy.
(v. t.) Alt. of Housewive
Example Sentences:
(1) A housewife, 42 years old, died from a chronic progressive neuro-psychiatric illness of 15 years duration characterized by memory disturbance, moria-syndrome, euphoria, social disorder and extrapyramidal symptoms combined with a severe bone disease.
(2) For example, an agricultural worker or housewife were 3.6 times more likely to have a 2nd birth than nonagricultural workers.
(3) A 38 year-old housewife had developed a growth-hormone secreting pituitary adenoma, and received a total of 50 Gy at the pituitary region.
(4) The authors report a rare combination of aneurysm and acoustic schwannoma in a 66-year-old housewife, who developed subarachnoid hemorrhage from a ruptured aneurysm arising from an arterial branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery on the tumor capsule.
(5) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(6) The patient was a twenty-six year old housewife with a history of two repeated episodic headaches followed by gait disturbance, vomiting and cold sweating.
(7) A 72-year-old housewife was diagnosed to have glycosuria at the age of 67, but no medical treatment was done.
(8) A semi-structured questionnaire was designed, tested and applied to the housewife or whoever performed this role within the family.
(9) A 35-year-old housewife living in Seoul complained of a recurrent palpable abdominal mass.
(10) We circumcise all our children, they say it’s good for our girls,” said Naga Shawky, a 40-year-old housewife, as she walked along streets near Sohair’s home.
(11) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(12) The Swabian Housewife : "One should simply have asked the Swabian housewife," said German chancellor Angela Merkel after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
(13) A 30-year-old previously healthy housewife presented with bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
(14) She was a typical Mexican housewife who made sure dinner was on the table at 5.30pm.
(15) The eleven cases of sensitization to Allium sativum L (garlic) corresponded to women whose primary or secondary profession was that of a housewife.
(16) The authors report a case of two aneurysms at the bifurcation of the basilar artery in a 47-year old housewife.
(17) Trierweiler’s mother, Jeannie, had six children in less than five years and was a full-time housewife.
(18) A 26-year-old housewife was admitted to our hospital with a history of high fever after previous cesarean delivery.
(19) A 61-year-old housewife had complained of unilateral facial pain and had been treated as prolonged trigeminal neuralgia by a dentist.
(20) For the women with favorable attitudes toward employment, it appears that being a housewife had more detrimental effects on health than being employed.
Wife
Definition:
(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
(n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(8) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(9) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(12) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(13) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(14) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(15) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(16) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(17) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(18) Dr Fiona Stewart, a public health sociologist and Nitschke’s wife, told Guardian Australia she had replaced Nitschke as Exit International’s director.
(19) "I rang my wife to tell her," he says, "and she just laughed."
(20) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.