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housemother
[hous-muhth-er]
noun
a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
Other Word Forms
- housemotherly adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of housemother1
Example Sentences
Melissa follows behind, Dasani slams the door in her housemother’s face.
Before long, a housemother at the school was punishing them for it.
But she changed her major to chemistry on the advice of her housemother; World War II was creating new opportunities for women in a field that had been a male preserve.
Sorority sisters and their drunken housemother fall prey to an obscene yuletide caller.
Ghosts invade a sorority on Halloween night, and when the housemother starts killing the sisters, the survivors have to make it through the night.
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