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/hˈaʊskˌipɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Housekeeping n.

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. (Obs.) "Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe."

adjective

Housekeeping adj. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

verb

house-keep, housekeep v. i. To take care of all household-related business.

Synonyms: house-keep, maintain a household, keep house.

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Etymology of 'Housekeeping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Housekeeping" Quotes from Famous Books

... served every age and sex. But Martha's department was, perforce, the unwed male section. No self-respecting wife or mother would allow laundry-darned hose or shirts to reflect on her housekeeping habits. And what woman, ultra-modern though she be, would permit machine-mended stockings to desecrate her bureau drawers? So it was that Martha ministered, for the most part, to those boarding house bachelors living within delivery-wagon proximity ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... Kirkbright a cup of tea when she went in there, as she would often for an hour's talk over knitting work and books that had been lent and read. Sylvie might well enough do the same, or go to them for hints and helps in her window-gardening and little ingenuities of housekeeping. Mrs. Argenter deluded herself agreeably with the notion that the relations in each case were identical. But what with the Sherretts and Miss Kirkbright were mere kindly incidents of living, apart somewhat from the crowd of daily demand and absorption, ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... had said that girls were of little use in the world, anyway—unless they settled down to housekeeping. The times Ruth had been of aid to him were, as he said, ...

— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson

... decided to make two cakes of it. They looked lovely when baked, and just right, and smelled so good, too! I wrapped them in nice white paper that had been wet with brandy, and put them carefully away—one in a stone jar, the other in a tin box—and felt that I had done a remarkably fine bit of housekeeping. The bachelors have been exceedingly kind to me, and I rejoiced at having a nice cake to send them Christmas morning. But alas! I forgot that the little house was fragrant with the odor of spice and fruit, and that there was a man about who was ever on the lookout for good things to eat. ...

— Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 • Frances M.A. Roe

... every detail of housekeeping was complete and very carefully looked after, while at the Barlows' everything went along in a slipshod, ...

— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells

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