"housework" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From house + work. Cognate with Dutch huiswerk (“homework”). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|house|work}} house + work, {{cog|nl|huiswerk||homework}} Dutch huiswerk (“homework”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} housework (uncountable)
  1. Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking. Tags: uncountable Translations (domestic household chores): أَعْمَال اَلْمَنْزِل (ʔaʕmāl al-manzil) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), 家務 (Chinese Cantonese), 家务 (gaa¹ mou⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 家務 (Chinese Mandarin), 家务 (jiāwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 家務勞動 (Chinese Mandarin), 家务劳动 (jiāwù láodòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 家事 (jiāshì) (Chinese Mandarin), husholdningsarbejde (Danish), huishouden [neuter] (Dutch), huishoudelijk werk [neuter] (Dutch), kotityöt [plural] (Finnish), taloustyöt [plural] (Finnish), ménage [masculine] (French), Hausarbeit [feminine] (German), οικιακά (oikiaká) [neuter, plural] (Greek), menajo (Ido), faccende [feminine, plural] (Italian), 家事 (kaji) (alt: かじ) (Japanese), 가사 (gasa) (alt: 家事) (Korean), үй иши (üy işi) (Kyrgyz), husarbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), husarbeid [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), serviço doméstico [masculine] (Portuguese), tarefas domésticas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), рабо́та по до́му (rabóta po dómu) [feminine] (Russian), дома́шняя рабо́та (domášnjaja rabóta) [feminine] (Russian), obair-taighe [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), tareas domésticas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), hushållsarbete [neuter] (Swedish), gawaing-bahay (Tagalog), งานบ้าน (ngaan bâan) (Thai), робо́та по до́му (robóta po dómu) (Ukrainian), прибира́ння (prybyránnja) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-housework-en-noun-7zc5cn-4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'domestic household chores': 95 5
  2. (uncommon) Homework. Tags: uncommon, uncountable
    Sense id: en-housework-en-noun-jfyGTynA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: inwork

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  "word": "housework"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.