as in housewife
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Recent Examples of hausfrau
The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II.
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Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party.
—Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife.
—Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau.
—John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
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And leading that charge is their den mother, a pampered, spoiled Beverly Hills housewife who becomes surprisingly resourceful and inspirational to the troop.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
8 May 2025
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Female Fitness of Kabul is set inside a crumbling Kabul gym, which opens to women for only a few hours each day, Afghan housewives in scarves and long dresses reclaim not just their bodies, but also their spirits, their bonds, and their sense of self.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 May 2025
Noun
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By offering plants, flowers and entire window boxes, the women supported homemakers of lesser means.—
Sonja Dümpelmann,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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His father, a hairdresser and his mother, a homemaker, were immigrants who escaped religious persecution and settled in Pittsburgh.—
David Moin,
WWD,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Kathy Bates plays Dolores, a hardscrabble Maine housekeeper who hasn't seen her estranged daughter, Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh), in 15 years.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 May 2025
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The male housekeeper then stands beside the elevator bank, through which Ventura exited before and appears to be talking to someone there.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2025
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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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