"household arts" meaning in All languages combined

See household arts on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} household arts pl (plural only)
  1. (set phrase, dated) Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants. Tags: dated, plural, plural-only, rare, singular Synonyms: domestic arts, domestic science, domestic sciences, home economics, homemaking Related terms: women's work
    Sense id: en-household_arts-en-noun-V0zC8Ejq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for household arts meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "household arts pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 23, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable",
          "text": "For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, R. D. Blackmore, \"Buscombe; or, A Michaelmas Goose\" in Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse",
          "text": "The Vicar's wife was much the same,\nIn fairer form presented—\nA lively, yet a quiet dame,\nWith home, sweet home, contented.\nIn parish, needs; and household arts,\nA lesson to this glib age;\nWell versed in pickles, jams, and tarts,\nPiano, chess, and cribbage."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 5, in In Morocco",
          "text": "The Moroccan lady knows little of cooking, needlework or any household arts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 19, Cintra Wilson, “A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-12-03",
          "text": "The inventory collectively amounts to the ingredients of an ideally wholesome, happy home — tools for a set of forgotten skills, tastes and virtues I casually refer to as “the household arts” — a medium that includes warm sheets stacked on ironing boards, pies cooling on windowsills, Mason jars full of last summer’s gooseberries, and cans of Old Dutch Cleanser under the sink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants."
      ],
      "id": "en-household_arts-en-noun-V0zC8Ejq",
      "links": [
        [
          "set phrase",
          "set phrase"
        ],
        [
          "Theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "set phrase",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(set phrase, dated) Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "women's work"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "domestic arts"
        },
        {
          "word": "domestic science"
        },
        {
          "word": "domestic sciences"
        },
        {
          "word": "home economics"
        },
        {
          "word": "homemaking"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "rare",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "household arts"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "household arts pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "women's work"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 23, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable",
          "text": "For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, R. D. Blackmore, \"Buscombe; or, A Michaelmas Goose\" in Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse",
          "text": "The Vicar's wife was much the same,\nIn fairer form presented—\nA lively, yet a quiet dame,\nWith home, sweet home, contented.\nIn parish, needs; and household arts,\nA lesson to this glib age;\nWell versed in pickles, jams, and tarts,\nPiano, chess, and cribbage."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 5, in In Morocco",
          "text": "The Moroccan lady knows little of cooking, needlework or any household arts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 19, Cintra Wilson, “A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-12-03",
          "text": "The inventory collectively amounts to the ingredients of an ideally wholesome, happy home — tools for a set of forgotten skills, tastes and virtues I casually refer to as “the household arts” — a medium that includes warm sheets stacked on ironing boards, pies cooling on windowsills, Mason jars full of last summer’s gooseberries, and cans of Old Dutch Cleanser under the sink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "set phrase",
          "set phrase"
        ],
        [
          "Theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "practice",
          "practice"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "set phrase",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(set phrase, dated) Theory and practice involving the skills and specialized knowledge in performing the domestic tasks required to care for the home and its occupants."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "rare",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "domestic arts"
    },
    {
      "word": "domestic science"
    },
    {
      "word": "domestic sciences"
    },
    {
      "word": "home economics"
    },
    {
      "word": "homemaking"
    }
  ],
  "word": "household arts"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.