Definition of housemother in English:
housemother
noun ˈhaʊsˌmʌðəˈhaʊsˌməðər
A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school house or children's home.
Example sentencesExamples
- And the housemother said quite graciously, ‘Well, Virginia, you have a choice.’
- Kellen has served as the fraternity's housemother since its re-establishment on campus in 1992.
- Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice.
- A housemother will be living on the premises and volunteers will soon join the staff as youth advisors.
- Despite the housemother's objections, plans for the revels continue.
- In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
- It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
- Muttering under his breath, he joins the distinguished company of fellow resident Terrence and housemother Mrs. Wilkinson.
- On 1st October 1968, when she was 21 years old, the applicant commenced work as a housemother in a Community Home in Prestatyn.
Definition of housemother in US English:
housemother
nounˈhousˌməT͟Hərˈhaʊsˌməðər
A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school dormitory or children's home.
Example sentencesExamples
- A housemother will be living on the premises and volunteers will soon join the staff as youth advisors.
- Kellen has served as the fraternity's housemother since its re-establishment on campus in 1992.
- On 1st October 1968, when she was 21 years old, the applicant commenced work as a housemother in a Community Home in Prestatyn.
- And the housemother said quite graciously, ‘Well, Virginia, you have a choice.’
- Despite the housemother's objections, plans for the revels continue.
- Muttering under his breath, he joins the distinguished company of fellow resident Terrence and housemother Mrs. Wilkinson.
- It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
- In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.
- Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice.