"housemother" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /haʊsˈmʌðə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], [haʊsˈmɐðə(ɹ)] [Received-Pronunciation], /hʌʊsˈmʌðɚ/ [General-American] Forms: housemothers [plural]
Etymology: Compound of house + mother. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com+|en|house|mother}} Compound of house + mother Head templates: {{en-noun}} housemother (plural housemothers)
  1. The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community. Categories (topical): Female people, Occupations Translations (mother of a family; the female head of household): Hausmutter [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-housemother-en-noun-CDScXnby Disambiguation of Female people: 83 17 Disambiguation of Occupations: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'mother of a family; the female head of household': 99 1
  2. A woman in charge of a residence for young people to look after them. Translations (woman in charge of a residence for young people): vartistino (Esperanto), surveillante [feminine] (French), Hausmutter [feminine] (German), 寮母 (ryōba) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-housemother-en-noun-kfuFEPjs Disambiguation of 'woman in charge of a residence for young people': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: housemotherly Related terms: housefather, houseparent

Inflected forms

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