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A man who tends to his home as a housekeeper or homemaker; the male equivalent of a housewife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: house husband
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: husband, hubby, married man
From house + husband (etymologically equivalent to house + bond).
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
amo de casa
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Chinese Mandarin:
家庭主夫
(jiātíng zhǔfū)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Czech:
muž v domácnosti
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Danish:
husfar
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Dutch:
huisman
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Estonian:
kodune mees
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Finnish:
koti-isä
— husband who remains in the homestead
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French:
homme au foyer
— husband who remains in the homestead
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French:
ménager
— husband who remains in the homestead
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German:
Hausmann
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Greek:
νοικοκύρης
(noikokýris)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Icelandic:
húsfaðir
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Icelandic:
húsmaður
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Italian:
uomo di casa
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Italian:
casalingo
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Japanese:
主夫
(shufu)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Northern Kurdish:
mêrê malê
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Macedonian:
до́маќин
(dómaḱin)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Polish:
gospodarz
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Polish:
gospodarz domu
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Portuguese:
dono de casa
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Romanian:
bărbat casnic
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Romanian:
casnic
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Russian:
домохозя́ин
(domoxozjáin)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Scots:
kettle biler
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Serbo-Croatian:
домаћин
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Serbo-Croatian:
domaćin
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Slovak:
muž v domácnosti
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Spanish:
amo de casa
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Swedish:
hemmaman
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Thai:
พ่อบ้าน
(pòo bâan)
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Turkish:
ev adamı
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Turkish:
ev erkeği
— husband who remains in the homestead
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Welsh:
gŵr o dŷ
— husband who remains in the homestead
